[oi-dev] Compiler migration #2

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Luca De Pandis wrote:

>> For practical purposes, the important
>> thing is to get OI repos to build with *any* relatively recent free
>> compiler (be it GCC or clang).
>> From GCC website:
> 3.4.3 November 4, 2004 ---> (~8 years and 9 months ago)
>
> It's not relatively recent. It's paleolithic, man.
>
> The only possible workarounds are build a recent gcc version yourself or use
> SFEgcc package, but the last option is not a viable alternative if your CPU is
> not SSE2-capable.

SSE2 appeared with the Pentium 4 in 2001.  It is not likely that OI 
users will be encountering CPUs which don't support SSE2.  Besides 
that, in Illumos-list discussions I have heard mention that the 
Illumos kernel requires SSE2.

Bob
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