Re: Proposal to handle __strstr_sse42 and friends issue on x86

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Tuesday 10 December 2013 19:55:01 Allan McRae wrote:
> For those who need some background, see [1].  In short, there is an
> issue with __strstr_sse42 on x86 which has a variety of workarounds.
>
> I am going to propose we adopt the removal of the SSE42 routines.  We
> can not ensure that binaries are built with a new enough compiler (gcc
> after 2000) and keep backwards compatibility.  Also, ensuring the stack
> is aligned when entering these functions would be a performance hit that
> would likely remove any advantage of the sse42 routine (not tested...),

i disagree.  if your code is broken, then it's broken.  this isn't sufficient 
reason imo to drop the code.
-mike

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