[flac-dev] FLAC 1.3.2 has been released

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Mon Jan 2 17:59:33 UTC 2017


Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> Janne Hyvärinen wrote:
>
>> That shouldn't matter.
>
> I realise that, but I wanted a better idea about how many people this
> is like to affect. If you were on Windows XP on some old processor this
> would probably not affect many people, but since you are on Windows 10
> with a Core i7 thats a different matter.

It's a bug in MSVC-specific part of code. So it will affect programmers
that use MSVC to build FLAC/libFLAC, and their users.

For users of AMD processors, the current code probably always sets SSE3
and SSE41 flags. If AMD processor doesn't support SSE4.1 then it can
result in a crash.


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