On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:21:40AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 15:03:43 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 July 2011 20:04:36 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>> > On Jul 9, 2011 8:50 PM, "Yann E. MORIN":
>> > >  - this selects: HAS_THUMB, COMPILE_IN_THUMB_MODE and USE_BX
>> > 
>> > I would prefer to name the knob USE_THUMB instead.
>> > Comments?
>> 
>> I am not a native english-speaker, but to me, USE_THUMB does not convey
>> the important meaning that Thumb mode is forced; it is not as strong.
>> Really, I named it thus to highlight the fact that some other config
>> option did force Thumb to be used.
>
>"USE_XXX" means "build code to actually use feature XXX".  "HAS_XXX" means 
>"the processor has support for feature XXX", but that doesnt necessarily mean 
>that the user wants to support it.

exactly.

HAS_X == would theoretically support X
USE_X == actually do/use X
FORCE_X == no matter if you support X, do/use X

See?
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