[OE-core] [PATCH v2 3/4] libav.inc: duplicate armv7a over-rides for armv7ve

[Andre McCurdy]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 14:29 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>  FULL_OPTIMIZATION_armv7a = "-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -O4 -ffast-math"
>> +FULL_OPTIMIZATION_armv7ve = "-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -O4 -ffast-math"
>
> I wonder if this would be better as just FULL_OPTIMIZATION_arm.  That
> said, the OPTIMIZATION variables are primarily distro knobs and it's not
> entirely clear that individual packages ought to be overriding them at
> all.
>
> Does anybody know whether there is any actual science behind the use of
> those flags on armv7a specifically?

They go back to at least 2011, so whatever science there might have
been back then is likely invalid by now.

  http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=61e4b696de080545e6ffe80d28a9c6ef8990695a

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