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On 02/01/2015 02:39 PM, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> 2. app-emulation/bochs got local USE=3dnow and USE=avx since the flag |
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>> control support of emulating the two instruction sets rather than using |
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>> host CPU instruction sets. |
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> Wouldn't it be simpler to use CPU_FLAGS_X86 for these and simply |
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> disable the emulation code if they're set? That seems better to me. |
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CPU_FLAGS is intended to control which machine code instructions are |
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allowed to be used in the compiled executables. If we use it for |
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anything else that does not fit this precise definition, then it will be |
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inconsistent and lead to confusion. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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