Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-12-01 12:06:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wonder whether we shouldn't remove the clang aspect of the test
>> you added, ie just make it read "if on x86, you must have either
>> -fexcess-precision=standard or -msse2".
> That sounds reasonable.
>> Or should we go so far as to have configure add -msse2 automatically?
> Probably not - there's several OSs / distributions that do not yet
> require an SSE2 capable CPU. While I personally don't care much about
> such machines, I don't think it's worth desupportem them as long as
> mainstream compilers with -fexcess-precision=standard exist.
I guess I wasn't precise enough: I meant add -msse2 if on x86 and
compiler doesn't take -fexcess-precision=standard.
regards, tom lane
