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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:57:42 +0100
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] bitops: compile time optimization for hweight_long(CONSTANT)
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On 12.2.2010 20:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 09:47 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>
>> However, this is generic code and for the above to work we have to
>> enforce x86-specific CFLAGS for it. What is the preferred way to do
>> that?
>>
> 
> That's a question for Michal and the kbuild list.  Michal?

(I was offline last week).

The _preferred_ way probably is not to do it :), but otherwise you can
set CFLAGS_hweight.o depending on CONFIG_X86(_32|_64), just like you do
in arch/x86/lib/Makefile already.

Michal
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