Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Infernal on i386

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Rebecca Palmer <rebecca_palmer@zoho.com>, 2014-09-17, 21:39:
> The solution recently added to Julia is to check, and if necessary 
> abort with an error, on starting the program itself:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-julia/julia.git/tree/debian/patches/require-sse2-on-i386.patch

FYI, since GCC 4.8 you can just write:
if (__builtin_cpu_supports("sse2")) ...

Reference:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/X86-Built-in-Functions.html#index-g_t_005f_005fbuiltin_005fcpu_005fsupports-3789
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html

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Jakub Wilk