Re: Building with -msse
Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> However, a user mentioned that he thinks all chips that fall into the
>> amd64 architecture have SSE and hence adding -msse would be safe for the
>> amd64 build. Is that correct? And in general are there any guidelines
>> about things like this? I assume that using -msse for the i386 build is
>> still out since we still support 486 chips.
> AFAIK, the amd64 gcc enables those extension by default.
Yeah, that was one of the things that was confusing me. It looks like
gnubg also has some custom code that's enabled based on a configure
argument as well.
Also, it looks like it probes at runtime for SSE, so I may be able to
build with that on i386 as well.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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