Skip to content

SSE2 instructions in i686 binaries #1196

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Closed
fstirlitz opened this issue Jul 6, 2017 · 1 comment
Closed

SSE2 instructions in i686 binaries #1196

fstirlitz opened this issue Jul 6, 2017 · 1 comment

Comments

@fstirlitz
Copy link

The rustup-init binary for i686, and the Rust toolchain it installs, contains SSE2 instructions, which means running it on my perfectly i686-compatible Pentium III laptop generates 'Illegal instruction' errors.

Some digging revealed it's because of rust-lang/rust#14441. Even besides the issue whether excluding actual i686 hardware from an i686 compiler target is sensible, greeting the user with an 'Illegal instruction' message hardly makes a good first impression.

@kinnison
Copy link
Contributor

Rust's definition of i686 I think remains one which which expects SSE2, and this isn't something we are likely to change in Rustup. Even if we targeted something less capable, the stdlib and compiler etc would be unchanged. As such I'm closing this issue, thank you for your input though.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants