Re: [HACKERS] Sun performance - Major discovery!

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Jeff <threshar(at)torgo(dot)978(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Sun performance - Major discovery!
Date: 2003-10-14 00:48:13
Message-ID: 200310140048.h9E0mDe09671@candle.pha.pa.us
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Done as you suggested.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, patch attached and applied. It centralizes the optimization
> > defaults into configure.in, rather than having CFLAGS= in the template
> > files.
>
> I think there's a problem here:
>
> > + # configure sets CFLAGS to -O2 for gcc, so this is only for non-gcc
> > + if test x"$CFLAGS" = x""; then
> > + CFLAGS="-O"
> > + fi
> > if test "$enable_debug" = yes && test "$ac_cv_prog_cc_g" = yes; then
> > CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"
> > fi
>
> since this will cause "configure --enable-debug" to default to selecting
> CFLAGS="-O -g" for non-gcc compilers. On a lot of compilers that
> combination does not work, and will generate tons of useless warnings.
> I think it might be better to do
>
> if test "$enable_debug" = yes && test "$ac_cv_prog_cc_g" = yes; then
> CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"
> + else
> + # configure sets CFLAGS to -O2 for gcc, so this is only for non-gcc
> + if test x"$CFLAGS" = x""; then
> + CFLAGS="-O"
> + fi
> fi
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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