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Re: please test next candidate for 4.1.17

To: ipfilter@coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: please test next candidate for 4.1.17
From: adh@an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:19:56 -0500 (EST)
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" From: "a b" <tripivceta@hotmail.com>
" 
" >[]
" >1. buildsunos line 94: needs to be changed to:
" >XARCH64_i386="$XARCH32 -fast -xarch=amd64 -xmodel=kernel"
" 
" Don't use -fast. -fast expands to some very specific CPU flags and uses the 
" []
" Instead, I recommend the following switches:
" 
" i86pc:
" -xO4 -xipo=2 -xbuiltin=%all -xlibmil -xlibmopt -xarch=generic
" 
" sparc:
" -xO4 -xipo=2 -xlinkopt=2 -xbuiltin=%all -xlibmil -xlibmopt -xarch=generic

i'd like to see both lines in the makefile, with the 'fast' one
commented out and including a note that it produces efficient but
non-portable code.  there are times when you need portability, but
there are times when you need efficiency.

perhaps various non-portable switches could be determined
automatically by uname output or the like.  considering all the
platforms ipfilter supports, this is probably too much complexity
though.
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