>> Sorry to bump this again, but I think it deserves to make the release
>> since the bug is important and the fix is easy (a similar one is already
>> used to avoid using SSE2)...
>
> I think the patch for SSE2 is not actually doing anything useful and should
> be removed, SSE2 is not defined on i386 and AIUI amd64-capable CPUs support
> SSE2 anyway.

Donovan,
Stuart had this same discussion with me and jsing@ in mid-April where
he showed this nifty thing to check for SSE (I hope Stuart doesn't
mind posting useful contents of a private email here. It is harmless.)

$ arch -s; cpp -dM /dev/null | grep SSE

which doesn't have any output on i386, but does on amd64. Please do
the same for __ALTIVEC, and post the result so Stuart or other
knowledgeable people can give you correct feedback.

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