This patch tries to simplify the code that tries to detect whether OS supports SSE instructions.
a) Linux: "old" vs "new" sigaction OBSOLETE_SIGCONTEXT_FLAVOR was disabled in Mar 2007 in commit <http://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=1ca3a445f832be5e8a99364fb38d9e2ea9a3a772> According to <http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?sigaction>: "Support for SA_SIGINFO was added in Linux 2.2" (released in Jan 1999). If noone wants to use FLAC with Linux kernel 2.0 then it's safe to delete this code. b) MSVC: try/catch vs. sigill_handler TRY_CATCH_FLAVOR was enabled in Jan 2009 in commit <http://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=a832ef32fb2a888674659097f40c1f8efb72c1a4> According to the comment in cpu.c, "sigill_handler flavor resulted in several crash reports on win32". Also this sigill_handler flavor is not thread-safe. c) MinGW: fxsave/fxrestore vs. sigill_handler The code was added Mar 2014 in commit <http://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=99d5154f436b389758d6a9020e448b8dbedb14bc> It's better to use FXSR flavor instead of sigill_handler flavor. The reasons are the same as for MSVC.
cpu_sse_os.patch
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