On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:47:53 +0000 Luke-Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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.
We can't really plan for every single hypothetical CPU that might come along in the future... I mean, if anyone ever releases a sparcv9 CPU which doesn't do VIS we're going to have to go through and add in some extra flags, for example. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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