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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2022-10-31 16:26:05 +0200
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2022-11-11 13:41:43 +0200
commit4ed56d32a91ff8ff21c71db4082a54a72ae08b3d (patch)
tree2379efefbd490621fbfb76c0cce55780066cdb53
parentBuild: Remove obsolete commented-out lines from configure.ac. (diff)
downloadxz-4ed56d32a91ff8ff21c71db4082a54a72ae08b3d.tar.xz
Build: Clarify comment in configure.ac about SSE2.
-rw-r--r--configure.ac5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9d851073..af82adeb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -797,7 +797,10 @@ if test "x$enable_external_sha256$sha256_func_found" = xyesno; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([--enable-external-sha256 was specified but no supported external SHA-256 implementation was found])
fi
-# Check for SSE2 intrinsics.
+# Check for SSE2 intrinsics. There is no run-time detection for SSE2 so if
+# compiler options enable SSE2 then SSE2 support is required by the binaries.
+# The compile-time check for SSE2 is done with #ifdefs because some compilers
+# (ICC, MSVC) allow SSE2 intrinsics even when SSE2 isn't enabled.
AC_CHECK_DECL([_mm_movemask_epi8],
[AC_DEFINE([HAVE__MM_MOVEMASK_EPI8], [1],
[Define to 1 if _mm_movemask_epi8 is available.])],