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.richard...@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. :-)
