Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Mark Shields
On Dec 21, 2007 7:10 PM, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:25:40 -0700 Jonathan Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second opinions: Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Graham Murray
Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I remember correctly, flags like this are not recommended to enable. GCC can already pass the appropriate flags, such as MMX and SSE, to programs when compiling; the fact that this ebuild has optional use flags for this setting is a red flag, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Graham Murray wrote: Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I remember correctly, flags like this are not recommended to enable. GCC can already pass the appropriate flags, such as MMX and SSE, to programs when compiling; the fact that this ebuild has

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:15:57 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, does this mean I should remove my mmmx CFLAGS? I must have been running this lot for at least 2.5 years now and cannot say that I have seen any problems with them: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse

[gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Haws
This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second opinions: Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and why or why not? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-21 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:25:40 -0700 Jonathan Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second opinions: Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and why or why not? Yes, it should. (Multimedia) programs that support it,