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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:14:41
Message-Id: 44AE6998.6090303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote:
2 >> That's because CFLAGS="-msse" currently doesn't do what the user
3 >> would think it does. Which is the real problem, which we're solving
4 >> with the change Diego suggested.
5 >
6 > Huh? What do you assume users think that CFLAGS=-msse does?
7 > I know some people get confused by the mmx/sse/whatever use flags, but
8 > I've never seen anybody assuming that CFLAGS determine if a patch
9 > should be applied/configure switch enabled.
10 > (I'm not arguing about the proposal itself here, just this argument is
11 > bullshit)
12
13 Well, that was the best argument I could think of. I wasn't aware of the
14 breakage in old compilers like <gcc-3.3.
15
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17 Kind Regards,
18
19 Simon Stelling
20 Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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