On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Michael Stahl <mst...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/08/14 03:10, Maniaxx wrote: >> Hallo, >> LibreOffice v4.3.0.4 doesn't work on SSE1 CPUs anymore. Tested on AMD >> AthlonXP (AMD K7) with Windows7 32Bit. Previous version was v4.1.0 that >> worked properly. >> >> Exception code is c000001d (illegal instruction). Probably thrown by >> SSE2 instruction (or higher) that the K7 doesn't understand (it supports >> "MMX, Extended 3DNow, SSE, PowerNow!"). >> >> This can usually be fixed by limiting the compiler (GCC) to SSE >> instruction set. >> >> Can you fix that? > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/7t5yh4fd%28v=vs.100%29.aspx > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio > /7t5yh4fd%28v=vs.110%29.aspx > > Visual Studio 2012 has switched the default to "/arch:SSE2", if we want > to support those old CPUs we have to use "-arch:SSE" (or even > "-arch:IA32", although i'd hope every CPU that can run WinXP supports SSE). > > that's reasonably easy to do for our own code, but probably a bit more > effort for the bundled external libraries...
The K7, which launched mid-1999, that is _before_ OpenOffice.org even started, has been discontinued by AMD in 2005.. that is 5 years _before_ libreoffice was launched, and 9 years before 4.3 was released. What compelling reason is there to run the lastest version of a software on such old architecture ? and even more to the point, what compelling reason is there to slow down everybody else for that. Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice