On Oct 18,  9:15am, jmc@NetBSD.org (James Chacon) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: uninitialized vars

| On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:30:59PM +0200, Jaka Jejcic wrote:
| > > We default to -O2 not to -O. Maybe that is your problem.
| > 
| > yep... that's it.
| > Thank you all.
| 
| Arbitrarily setting the -O level will possibly bite you anyways depending on
| places that may tickle compiler bugs at different settings.
| 
| It's generally safer to let the system -O options remain in place and only
| add -m options as needed.

Indeed; when I compiled my sparc64 system with -O6, I had to patch binutils
for things to work.

christos