Alan:

The upstream project adopted changes while porting to Microsoft Visual C
that made it easier to adapt to Studio 12 as well, so that is now working
for us, though it may still be a problem for other code written for gcc.
The one issue remaining there that I've been meaning to ask about is I
couldn't find an appropriate -xarch flag to enable the MMX intrinsics without
also enabling SSE - right now it's using -xarch=sse since -xarch=mmx isn't
recognized.  (The gcc code uses -mmmx for those.)   The changes I made to
port it to Studio 12 can be seen at:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman/commit/?id=fd7449c4855e77d31770f9042ba43e186c541ce5

I wouldn't think "-xarch=sse" is needed.  Many desktop modules contain
MMX hardware acceleration code and we don't use this flag when building
any modules, yet the hardware acceleration code gets built.

I believe if you build with "-xarch=sse" that this will create binaries
that will not work on machines that do not have SSE support.  So older
MMX-only machines won't be able to run the code.

Brian
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