On 22/01/2021 11.58, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
Users might want to enable all features, without realizing some
features have negative effect. Rename '--enable-tcg-interpreter'
as '--disable-native-tcg' to avoid user selecting this feature
without understanding it. '--enable-tcg-interpreter' is kept in
for backward compability with scripts.
Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
---
RFC so it can be discarded from the series
configure | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 71bdc523aa0..5e56fa76499 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1121,7 +1121,8 @@ for opt do
;;
--disable-tcg-interpreter) tcg_interpreter="no"
;;
- --enable-tcg-interpreter) tcg_interpreter="yes"
+ --enable-tcg-interpreter) # backward compatibility
+ --disable-native-tcg) tcg_interpreter="yes"
;;
--disable-cap-ng) cap_ng="disabled"
;;
@@ -1753,7 +1754,7 @@ Advanced options (experts only):
--with-trace-file=NAME Full PATH,NAME of file to store traces
Default:trace-<pid>
--disable-slirp disable SLIRP userspace network connectivity
- --enable-tcg-interpreter enable TCG with bytecode interpreter (experimental
and slow)
+ --disable-native-tcg enable TCG with bytecode interpreter (experimental
and slow)
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
