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On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:54:13 -0800 |
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Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> |
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> > On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> |
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> >> wrote: |
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> >> > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug |
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> >> > report re: emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the |
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> >> > 'ricer special' CFLAGS |
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> >> The CFLAGS you showed me weren't any more ricer than "-O2 |
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> >> -march=native". (I didn't know that -D_FORTIFY=2 came from gcc) |
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> >> They wouldn't have a leg to stand on... |
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> > Mine is: |
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> > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange |
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> > -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -funsafe-math-optimizations |
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> > -fexcess-precision=fast" |
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> > If you tell me that's not a ricer's CFLAGS, then you've just made |
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> > me a very happy cat :-) |
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> > Rgds, |
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> I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term |
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> 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is |
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> really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin |
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> I simply cannot find using Google? |
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Japanese youngsters doing bizarre mods to cars that produce absolutely |
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no net gain are indeed the source of the term "ricer". |
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Yes, it is rude and disparaging but it's also the real root of the |
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term. There's no need to politically correct it, the origin is what it |
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is. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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