[svn-r18631] Description:

    Bring r18630 from trunk to 1.8 branch:

    Fix remaining aliasing problems and enable optimizations w/gcc now.  This
addresses the remaining issues for Bug#1398.

Tested on:
    Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) in debug mode
    Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
        in production mode
    (h5committested on trunk)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/config/gnu-flags b/config/gnu-flags
index 427b839..96db51d 100644
--- a/config/gnu-flags
+++ b/config/gnu-flags
@@ -147,23 +147,11 @@ case "$cc_vendor-$cc_version" in
       gcc-2.95.[34])
         PROD_CFLAGS="-O3"
         ;;
-      gcc-4.[345]*)
-        # The optimization level is reduced for gcc 4.[345] due to problems
-        # with code generation for src/H5Tconv.c with the -O (same -O1)
-        # optimization levels (which shows up as failures for long double
-        # types -> signed char conversion in the test/dt_arith test).
-        # There's either a bug in gcc or our code. Need further investigation.
-	# Turn off all optimizations to allow the tests to pass for now.
-        # - AKC - 2009/04/19
-        PROD_CFLAGS="-O0"
+      gcc-3.*)
+        PROD_CFLAGS="-O3"
         ;;
-      gcc-3.[0-4]*|gcc-4.[012]*)
-        # The optimization level is reduced for gcc 3.* and 4.* due to problems
-        # with code generation for src/H5Tconv.c with the -O2 & -O3 
-        # optimization levels (which shows up as failures for various integer
-        # types -> long long conversions in the test/dtypes test).  Perhaps
-        # later versions of gcc will fix this bug... - QAK - 2003/10/20
-        PROD_CFLAGS="-O"
+      gcc-4.*)
+        PROD_CFLAGS="-O3"
         ;;
       *)
         PROD_CFLAGS="-O"