Deprecate -msse2 and -msse flags
I propose msse2 to be on by default. I guess the default was chosen way back, when Pentium III support was still relevant.
Nowadays we don't really win on the CPU support, because e.g. https://github.com/tibbe/hashable/blob/master/hashable.cabal is built by default with sse2 on the injected C code level. And hashable has a lot of reverse depends, therefore on an end user system (RedHat or Debian) the user is most probably unlucky with a Pentium III CPU anyways.
Flipping this default would also fix the excess precision problem for most users of GHC on the i686 platform.
GHC should provide a -mno-sse2 flag for the cases when this needs to be disabled.
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Version | 7.9 |
Type | Bug |
TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
Priority | normal |
Resolution | Unresolved |
Component | Compiler (CodeGen) |
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CC | simonmar |
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