On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:47:53PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Sunday 09 January 2005 5:53 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:40:42 +0100 Benjamin Schindler
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | > Do all amd64 boxes support sse? If they do, you can do:
> > |
> > | Yes, both sse and sse2
> >
> > Right. Then you should not be offering USE flag settings for sse/sse2 on
> > amd64. The only purpose of those flags is to allow us to build, say,
> > i686 stages on a pentium4 without having to create a whole new arch to
> > do so.
> 
> Does the x86_64 architecture specifications require sse/sse2? Just because 
> sse-less x86_64 CPUs do not exist right now doesn't mean they won't in the 
> future, and then the same problem would come up again.

Somehow I can't entirely picture somebody deciding to take amd64 and rip 
out features as basic as sse.

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