Disable SSE3 features in glibc

[Matt Turner]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Thawan Kooburat <kthawan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to prevent glibc from using its SSE3 routines such as :
> __strncpy_ssse3 even though the machine supports those features. Is
> there anyway to do it?
>
> Right now I am thinking that I need to recompile glibc. However, I am
> not sure which configuration flag should I use.
> I am on a 64-bit machine, but there is only one - - host option
> (x86_64) unlike the 32-bit host.
>
> I found the compilation guide for glibc:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Glibc-Install-HOWTO/
> However, it seems a bit complicated. So I am thinking of using
> Fedora's glibc source rpm. Hopefully, I can compile and install glibc
> with a special setup like the method in the link.
>
>
> Please suggest
>
>
> --
> Thawan Kooburat
>
> Graduate Student
> Department of Computer Science
> UW-Madison

Are you experiencing a bug caused by the SSE3 routines? Or is there
some other purpose?

Matt