On 2015-04-08 09:19, Pengfei Yuan wrote:
> 2015-04-08 20:06 GMT+08:00 Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>:
>> I can't remember any off the top of my head, but it does say explicitly in
>> the GCC manual to be careful with -O3.  IIRC, most of the issues relate to
>> -O3 enabling -ffast-math (which tends to really mess with code that expects
>> strict IEEE 754 compliance), so it may not be as much of an issue for kernel
>> code.  You might look into some of the projects that use -O3 by default (I
>> think most of the Mozilla so0ftware does these days, and I know that there
>> are others, I just can't remember what right now).
>>
>
> I am afraid you are talking about -Ofast, not -O3.
> See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
>
> Yuan
>
You're right, I had been looking at the wrong paragraph in the info 
manual.  Sorry about any confusion.