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What you really should enable is the fun and safe math optimizations, with -funsafe-math-optimizations.


The problem is this causes the compiler to correctly solve your recreational math problems, which isn't actually a much fun as solving them yourself!


I know almost nothing about compiler flags but I got a laugh out of this even though I still don't know if you're joking or not. Edit: Just read it again and now I understand the joke. Haha


To others `-f` is a common prefix for GCC flags. You can think of this as "enable feature". So -funsafe-math-operations should be read as (-f) (unsafe-math-operations). Not (-)(funsafe-math-operations).


I kind of like the idea the flag is sarcastically calling them very fun and very safe.


don't forget libiberty which is linked in using -liberty (and freedom for all)


BTW that library was named by John Gilmore, who’s a pretty hardcore libertarian.


strangely I'm not aware of a libibre.


oh, that's called -lmojito




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