how long to keep support for gcc on x86?

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

On Jan 14, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Peter Wemm wrote:
>> Hrm, I *believe* the Geode CPU's on a number of the PcEngines ALIX boards actually do, and the Soekris 5501 seems to as well.
> 
> Nope.  They have AES on the die, but its not the AES-NI that's the
> topic here.  AES-NI was added in 2010 in the Core-i5/i7 families and
> in 2012 in the AMD A10 cores.

10-4, thanks for the clarification.

>>> And even if they did, the default 10.x compiler would support it.
>> 
>> Can't confirm that (yet), but I'll bet it's AOK.
> 
> That's how this thread started.  Full AES-NI support is in the default
> compiler (clang) in the base system for amd64 and i386 but there's
> missing pieces with the old built-in gcc+binutils.  If you BYO newer
> version of gcc+binutils, that would work too.

I'll step back on this one for the right call.

Best,
.ike