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On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:16:48 +0100 |
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Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:24:27 +0200 |
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> Hanno Böck <hanno@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > If the flag just disables assembly optimizations then I wonder if it |
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> > should be renamed (or if we need it at all - in case these assembly |
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> > optimizations have no downsides). |
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> Many (all?) of the ebuilds with this flag do indeed only disable |
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> assembly snippets, and most of them only do this on 32-bit x86 (gzip |
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> being the prominent exception). |
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And ffmpeg and mesa. |
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In ffmpeg the flag description says: |
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"Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower)" |
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Which confuses me - I thought shared libraries are always PIC. |
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It looks to me these are all historic leftovers, but I'd like to |
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understand it better before I open bugs asking for removal of these |
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flags. |
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Hanno Böck |
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https://hboeck.de/ |
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mail/jabber: hanno@××××××.de |
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GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42 |
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