I tried to build with the following *FLAGS to optimize the build: -flto=4 -Werror=odr -Werror=lto-type-mismatch -Werror=strict-aliasing
Link-Time Optimization is a massively global compiler optimization pass which is pretty handy for producing faster executables. It also has the interesting property that because the compiler does whole-program analysis using bytecode, it can save type information and perform error checks that it normally doesn’t have enough insight for. In particular, checking for ODR issues and checking function type signature mismatches.
Note that all the -Werror=* flags are used to help detect cases where the compiler tries to optimize by assuming UB cannot exist in the source code -- if it does exist, ordinarily the code would be miscompiled, and this says to make the miscompilation a fatal error.
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I tried to build with the following *FLAGS to optimize the build:
-flto=4 -Werror=odr -Werror=lto-type-mismatch -Werror=strict-aliasingLink-Time Optimization is a massively global compiler optimization pass which is pretty handy for producing faster executables. It also has the interesting property that because the compiler does whole-program analysis using bytecode, it can save type information and perform error checks that it normally doesn’t have enough insight for. In particular, checking for ODR issues and checking function type signature mismatches.
Note that all the -Werror=* flags are used to help detect cases where the compiler tries to optimize by assuming UB cannot exist in the source code -- if it does exist, ordinarily the code would be miscompiled, and this says to make the miscompilation a fatal error.
I got this error:
This was originally reported downstream at https://bugs.gentoo.org/855245
I reproduced it with versions 8.0.30-23 and 8.3.0-1.