[PATCH 2/7] Don't disable SSE in x86-64 ld.so

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 21:41:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> I meant a comment for the CFLAGS-.os setting, but close enough.
>
> However, the x86_64/Makefile bit needs a comment for its CFLAGS-.os
> setting that explains why -mno-mmx is necessary in ld.so code.

We use -mno-mmx on i386 since mm registers are passed to pass
__m64 arguments.  On x86-64, I can't think of a good reason to use
MMX in ld.so.

Here is the updated patch.

-- 
H.J.
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