Hi,m
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.
Greetings,
Andres Freund