PATCH: Re: Do we really want to use i586 code for i686?

[Roland McGrath]

> I am not sure if it will work since it breaks the model of
> 
> base_machine=i386 machine=i386/$machine

I'm not sure what you are worried about, but I think you must have
misunderstood the suggestion.

> That may work. How about we have
> 
> local:i586
> 
> to indicate it should apply locally? It can be used both in libc and
> add-ons.

Something like that seems ok to me.  I don't have much opinion about syntax.