On 22/01/21 14:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
Users might want to enable all features, without realizing some
features have negative effect. Rename '--enable-tcg-interpreter'
as '--disable-native-tcg' to avoid user selecting this feature
without understanding it. '--enable-tcg-interpreter' is kept in
for backward compability with scripts.
Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
---
configure | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 48bd6f48d7a..5e5ff779a69 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1121,7 +1121,8 @@ for opt do
;;
--disable-tcg-interpreter) tcg_interpreter="no"
;;
- --enable-tcg-interpreter) tcg_interpreter="yes"
+ --enable-tcg-interpreter) # backward compatibility
Do you really want to break the old option?
+ --disable-native-tcg) tcg_interpreter="yes"
;;
--disable-cap-ng) cap_ng="disabled"
;;
@@ -1753,7 +1754,7 @@ Advanced options (experts only):
--with-trace-file=NAME Full PATH,NAME of file to store traces
Default:trace-<pid>
--disable-slirp disable SLIRP userspace network connectivity
- --enable-tcg-interpreter enable TCI (TCG with bytecode interpreter,
experimental and slow)
+ --disable-native-tcg enable TCI (TCG with bytecode interpreter,
experimental and slow)
--enable-malloc-trim enable libc malloc_trim() for memory optimization
--oss-lib path to OSS library
--cpu=CPU Build for host CPU [$cpu]
The problem here is that for some CPUs there is no native TCG... I
mean, what's unclear in "exprimental and slow"?
Paolo
