Hi Michael, > -----Original Message----- > From: Gcc <gcc-boun...@gcc.gnu.org> On Behalf Of Michael Matz > Sent: 30 April 2020 12:10 > To: Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org; nmeye...@amzn.com > Subject: Re: Should ARMv8-A generic tuning default to -moutline-atomics > > Hello, > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Florian Weimer via Gcc wrote: > > > Distributions are receiving requests to build things with > > -moutline-atomics: > > > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956418> > > > > Should this be reflected in the GCC upstream defaults for ARMv8-A > > generic tuning? It does not make much sense to me if every distribution > > has to overide these flags, either in their build system or by patching > > GCC. > > Yep, same here. It would be nicest if upstream would switch to > outline-atomics by default on armv8-a :-) (the problem with build system > overrides is that some compilers don't understand the option, complicating > the overrides; and patching GCC package would create a deviation from > upstream also for users)
Thanks for your input. I've posted a couple of possible patches for this here: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-April/544923.html Kyrill > > > Ciao, > Michael.
