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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH 1/1] doc: add deprecation notice for CPU build flags
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:07:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200805150741.GD1716@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2844470.HTv9E7uqEf@thomas>

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 04:57:42PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 05/08/2020 16:21, Bruce Richardson:
> > The RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAGS_* macros in DPDK build just duplicate info from
> > the compiler macros, so we can remove them and just use the compiler
> > versions directly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > ---
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +* build macros: The macros defining RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_* will be removed
> > +  from the build. The information provided by these macros is available
> > +  through standard compiler macros. For example, RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_SSE3
> > +  duplicates the compiler-provided macro __SSE3__.
> 
> I see 2 advantages of having alias:
> 	- if 2 compilers differ, we can manage
> 	- we can find all such macros with grep RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG
>

Sure, if you think it's worthwhile keeping them, we can do so. It's just
right now they seem to be largely a waste of space. For #2, I'm not sure
when we would want to grep for them all, except possibly to remove them.
:-)

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-05 14:21 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/1] RFC: remove build-type CPU flag macros Bruce Richardson
2020-08-05 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] doc: add deprecation notice for CPU build flags Bruce Richardson
2020-08-05 14:23   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-08-05 14:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] " Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-05 15:07     ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2020-08-05 15:15       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-05 16:45         ` Bruce Richardson
2020-08-05 17:02           ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-06 16:01             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-06 21:41           ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-07 13:48             ` Thomas Monjalon

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