Bug#1095863: release.debian.org: Raising the i386 baseline for Trixie to include SSE2/MMX

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Fabian Grünbichler, le jeu. 13 févr. 2025 08:11:14 +0100, a ecrit:
> A mixed approach (raising the baseline to allow LLVM and rustc to bump
> their targets, but keeping GCC's default target and thus the majority of
> packages at the current/old baseline and skip the rebuilds there) might
> be possible, but also has potential perfomance or bugginess implications
> because of switching back and forth between x87 and SSE floating
> operations.

Which kind of bug? AIUI raising the baseline does not change the
function call ABI, and within a function we use only one compiler?

Samuel