Felipe Sateler wrote: >> Is there some reason you can't /build/ with SSE2 support on the >> compiler? Or were you suggesting that we needed to add compiler flags >> to make this work? > > My fear is that enabling SSE2 support globally for the library might > induce gcc to use SSE2 instructions in its generated code. See the > -msse section in the gcc manual[1]: > >> In particular, the file containing the CPU detection code should be >> compiled without these options. > > So, I think what is needed is to split sse-using functions to a > separate file and add -msse2 only to that file. However, I am not very > confident I understand this very well, so this may not be optimal > either. Ah, sneaky, if that's true, the approach I took in the initial patches I posted elsewhere in this thread aren't ideal either. I'll go back and see if I can work up something better. -- Rex
