Re: Bug fix for glibc broke freebsd build in REL_11_STABLE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Victor Wagner <vitus(at)wagner(dot)pp(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug fix for glibc broke freebsd build in REL_11_STABLE
Date: 2018-12-01 22:28:54
Message-ID: 12522.1543703334@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2018-12-01 12:06:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wonder whether we shouldn't remove the clang aspect of the test
>> you added, ie just make it read "if on x86, you must have either
>> -fexcess-precision=standard or -msse2".

> That sounds reasonable.

>> Or should we go so far as to have configure add -msse2 automatically?

> Probably not - there's several OSs / distributions that do not yet
> require an SSE2 capable CPU. While I personally don't care much about
> such machines, I don't think it's worth desupportem them as long as
> mainstream compilers with -fexcess-precision=standard exist.

I guess I wasn't precise enough: I meant add -msse2 if on x86 and
compiler doesn't take -fexcess-precision=standard.

regards, tom lane

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