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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:55:07
Message-Id: 54B6BB82.7060604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 01/14/2015 10:28 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > Would this approach clean up some of the masking? Eg. I hate having to
3 > mask sse and friends in base/use.mask and then unmask them in
4 > arch/amd64/use.mask. I'm not sure if there's a technique to make a use
5 > expand flags relevant only for a particular profile.
6
7 The USE_EXPAND flags are essentially the same a regular USE flags. The
8 "special technique" for masking USE_EXPAND flags would be to mask flags
9 like cpu_flags_neon as though they are regular USE flags.
10 --
11 Thanks,
12 Zac