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Matt Turner posted on Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:09:30 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> to avoid confusion I'd suggest arch-neon or arm-neon (or armneon/ |
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>> archneon) if it's to be a global flag. |
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> NEON (the SIMD extensions) are turned on by the neon flag much more |
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> often than support for net-libs/neon is. Let's not rename USE flags like |
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> this. |
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I'd argue that the library is far more frequently used, given that it's |
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used across archs and arm is (for the time being, that seems to be |
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gradually changing) still a rather obscure arch (for end-user installed |
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distros, anyway), so the neon library is likely the most frequently used. |
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However you are probably correct about the USE flag, as the library usage |
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seems to be required in many cases and thus not USE-flaggable. |
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So I'd still argue that to prevent confusion... but it's not something I |
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feel strongly about, so given no one else objecting, use=neon for the simd |
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extensions works as a global USE flag, and if it's ever used for the net- |
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lib, that one can change I guess. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |