Hey great question! I too have been wondering about this for quite some time.
> > In fact, not being a developper, I don't understand the practical
> > consequences of "Gcc generates invalid sse2 code".
>
My system runs perfectly fine, just as you had said... this really concerns me; is
there a chance of ruining my hardware? i run gentoo on my nice brand-new thinkpad! Is
there an expected release of gcc any time soon?? While i dig on the 'net, any more
information would be very well appreciated!
lion-O
> Yes it does cause problems (with python and glibc) and your cflags
> including -msse2 should minimally be -mno-sse2 or something similar
> since it is sse2 that is problematic. I can't remember the exact
> syntax. The safe method is use -march=pentium3.
>
> Here is a course of action. Wait until gcc 3.2.3 or 3.3 is marked
> stable and then rebuild your system via emerge -e world. That should
> take care of any existing problems.
>
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