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Update-Note: Building for 32-bit x86 may require fixing your builds to
pass -msse2 to the compiler. This will also speed up the rest of the
code in your project. If your project needs to support the Pentium III,
please contact BoringSSL maintainers.
As far as I know, all our supported 32-bit x86 consumers require SSE2.
I think, in the past, I've asserted that our assembly skips SSE2
capability detection. Looking at it again, I don't think that's true.
OPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 means to enable runtime detection of SSE2, not
compile-time.
Additionally, I don't believe we have *ever* tested the non-SSE2
assembly codepaths. Also, now that we want to take the OPENSSL_ia32cap_P
accesses out of assembly, those runtime checks are problematic, as we'd
need to bifurcafe functions all the way down to bn_mul_words.
Unfortunately, the situation with compilers is... complicated. Ideally,
everyone would build with the equivalent of -msse2. 32-bit x86 is so
register-poor that running without SSE2 statically available seems
especially foolish. However, per
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/9868, while
Clang defaults to enabling SSE2, GCC does not.
We once broke gRPC's build, in
grpc/grpc#17540, by inadvertently assuming
SSE2. In that discussion, gRPC maintainers were okay requiring Pentium 4
as the minimum CPU, but it's unclear if they actually changed their
build. That discussion also said GCC 8 assumes SSE2, but I'm not able to
reproduce this.
LLVM does indeed interpret "i686" as implying SSE2:
llvm/llvm-project#61347rust-lang/rust#82435
However, Debian LLVM does *not*. Debian carries a patch to turn this
off!
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-toolchain/-/blob/snapshot/debian/patches/disable-sse2-old-x86.diff?ref_type=heads
Meanwhile, Fedora fixed their baseline back in 2018.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Update_i686_architectural_baseline_to_include_SSE2
So let's start by detecting builds that forgot to pass -msse2 and see if
we can get them fixed. If this sticks, I'll follow up by unwinding all
the SSE2 branches.
Bug: 673
Change-Id: I851184b358aaae2926c3e3fe618f3155e71c2f71
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/65875
Reviewed-by: Bob Beck <[email protected]>
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 56d3ad9d23bc130aa9404bfdd1957fe81b3ba498)
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