When the compiler is fed two optimization flags in one line, which one does it take, the higher or lower? Just curious, b/c BSD ports is taking the -O2 from the makefile for KDE, and it's appending -O3 from my CFLAGS or COPTFLAGS (I can't remember which) in my make.conf.

I believe I may have already talked with you about this, but in the spirit of being more active on the forums, here it goes.

It would be logical, in context of how arguments are generally parsed in UNIX tools, that whatever option appears last is that which will be used. For example:



That should generate a binary with size optimization, not level 3.