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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>,         gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,         Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Prec x86 MMX 3DNow! SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 support
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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> >Let's avoid that extension, as GDB is supposed to be buildable with
>> >a non-GCC compiler.
>> 
>> I thought we had given up that requirement?

Joel> You might be right, but I don't remember us making that decision.
Joel> Anyone remembers?

I have never heard that.

We do use GCC features sometimes, but always conditionally; e.g., look
for __GNUC__ in defs.h.

Tom