On 05/05/2020 15:48, Luboš Luňák wrote:
I suggest that we remove the '-arch:SSE' added on Windows, i.e. that we
require at least SSE2-capable systems.
This was added by 8bd6bf93b7 in 2014, but at this point there's basically
nobody who would be running LO but wouldn't be capable of SSE2.
Some relevant facts:
- GCC, Clang and MSVC all default to SSE2+
- The last Windows to work without at least SSE2 was Windows 7, which is EOL
(and in fact it in practice required SSE2+ too, since an update in 2018).
- Windows 8, MSOffice 2013, Chromium require SSE2+.
- I checked all ~240k crash dumps reported in the last month and there's not a
single one from a machine not capable of SSE2.
(FWIW, when -msse2 was discussed for 32-bit Linux x86 in the context of
<https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2016-September/075211.html>
"Re: Test File: sc/qa/unit/data/functions/fods/chiinv.fods: fails with
Assertion", it was turned down in replies
<https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2016-September/075324.html>
and
<https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2016-September/075316.html>.)
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