[doc, testsuite, libgfortran] Avoid use of SSE/SSE2/SSE3 on Solaris 8/9 x86

Rainer Orth ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Fri Jul 9 16:59:00 GMT 2010


"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> If your OS doesn't support SSE, but -march=native may generate SSE
> instructions, then you get a big problem.

Well, only if you use -march=native ;-)  It's obviously the same problem
addressed by this patch: the presence of SSE support in the CPU is not
enough to decide if the insns can actually be used.  Same solution,
obviously.

	Rainer

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