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