Control: reassign -1 gcc-16
Control: retitle -1 gcc-16: Please raise i386 baseline to include MMX, SSE,
SSE2 in forky
On Sat, 07 Feb 2026 at 11:10:21 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 at 14:38:10 +0200, on Bug#1095863, Paul Gevers wrote:
Now that the forky development is open, gcc should probably do its
thing to bump its baseline on i386.
I would like to make this request official: please bump gcc's baseline
for i386 to be at least i686 + MMX + SSE + SSE2. We already announced
in the Debian 13 release notes that the purpose of the i386 port is to
be run on an x86_64 CPU in a chroot or container, or via multiarch or
multilib. Halfway through the Debian 14 cycle seems like enough of a
grace period before really enforcing this.
Reassigning to gcc-16 since that's now the default.
https://bugs.debian.org/1146393 seems to be an example of a regression
that would have been avoided by a higher baseline.
Thanks,
smcv
