Re: What does the pic USE flag do these days?

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:24:27 +0200
Hanno B=C3=B6ck <[email protected]> wrote:

> If the flag just disables assembly optimizations then I wonder if it
> should be renamed (or if we need it at all - in case these assembly
> optimizations have no downsides).

Many (all?) of the ebuilds with this flag do indeed only disable
assembly snippets, and most of them only do this on 32-bit x86 (gzip
being the prominent exception).

I haven't looked at any code yet, but I think it could be a good idea
to just remove the flag (and hard-wire it to true in the cases where it
only affects x86-32, examine the situation a bit further for gzip).

Cheers,
Luis Ressel