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[Mageia-dev] Clanlib2 and SSE2 on i586

+ Olivier Blin + mageia at blino.org +
+ Tue Dec 4 22:51:25 CET 2012 +

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+ +
Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> writes:
+
+> Le 03/12/2012 23:42, zezinho a écrit :
+>> Trying to launch openalchemist gave me a crash because Clanlib2 uses
+>> SSE2 on SSE2 systems for software rendering, while we disabled it at
+>> configure.
+>>
+>> What should we do? I think enabling it is better, as all i586 CPU with
+>> less than 10 years come with SSE2. But our policy forbids it ;-)
+> Cool. Now we have software crashing because they don't use available
+> features, what a nice idea...
+
+Recent CPUs also all come out with x86_64 support, so the i586 port is
+basically only used for older CPUs.
+It makes sense to not enable SSE* optimizations for i586, to be
+compatible with Geode/VIA/etc processors.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
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