From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hetzner.pbcl.net (mail.pbcl.net [88.198.119.4]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266D8601D4 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blundell.swaffham-prior.co.uk ([91.216.112.25] helo=e130.local) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aQNDE-0006Ay-0o; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:44:48 +0100 Message-ID: <1454366681.7421.37.camel@pbcl.net> From: Phil Blundell To: Randy MacLeod Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 22:44:41 +0000 In-Reply-To: <56AFDAC5.9000008@windriver.com> References: <1453937316-1311-1-git-send-email-armccurdy@gmail.com> <1453937316-1311-3-git-send-email-armccurdy@gmail.com> <56AFDAC5.9000008@windriver.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] glib-2.0: drop add-march-i486-into-CFLAGS-automatically.patch X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 22:44:52 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 17:23 -0500, Randy MacLeod wrote: > Do you remember why this patch was needed? The comments in the patch provide a fairly clear explanation of what problem it was trying to solve. But I agree with Andre that this cure is in fact worse than the original disease. In any case, the issue is probably moot because neither glibc nor musl support cpus without cmpxchg any more. p.