Re: GCC -msse2 portability question

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On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 22:27 +0100, Loic Dachary wrote:
> 
> On 23/03/2014 23:34, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/i386-and-x86-64-Options.html#i386-and-x86-64-Options
> > 
> > So unless you want to run your code a very very old x86 32 bit processor
> > "-msse" shouldn't be an issue. "-msse2" is similar.
> 
> This is good to know :) Should I be worried about unintended side effects of -msse4.2 -mssse3 -msse4.1 or -mpclmul ? These are the flags that gf-complete are using, specifically.

Hi,

SSE4.2 will be available only in more recent
processors as documented on the page above.

If your library already is dynamically checking for processor
feature I would advise to be conservative in your
-m flags, ie using what debian would use for maximum
x86 portability.

Sincerely,

Laurent

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