diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 435779e8c..f46979c5d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ ifeq (clang++, $(findstring clang++,$(CXX)))
     CPPCHK_GLIBCXX_DEBUG=
 endif
 ifndef CXXFLAGS
-    CXXFLAGS=-pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wcast-qual -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-long-long -Wpacked -Wredundant-decls -Wundef -Wno-shadow -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-multichar $(CPPCHK_GLIBCXX_DEBUG) -g
+    CXXFLAGS=-std=c++0x -O2 -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wno-sign-compare
 endif
 
 # Increase stack size for Cygwin builds to avoid segmentation fault in limited recursive tests.