BZ #165: Thread-unsafe code should be eliminated from i386 codegen

Status fields:

creation_ts:2012-01-30 12:18
component:jit
version:default branch
rep_platform:i386
op_sys:Linux
bug_status:NEW
reporter:stefan@complang.tuwien.ac.at 
In src/vm/jit/i386/codegen.c, there are several sections with code for float conversions
with are commented "XXX not thread safe!". This should be fixed. With SSE2 available,
doing the conversion without requiring additional memory relatively easy. SSE2 even
seems to be quite straight-forward to detect at runtime. Alternatively, and I wager this
would be easier, just use BUILTIN functions. Probably, all that's needed would be a
toggled feature flag in arch.h.