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@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Thanks go out to the ROM 106.5FM team (http://www.rom.lu/) for supporting this r
 - use movap instruction in SSE assembly when compiler supports the needed alignment (idea from MPlayer)
 - show decoder options in their priority order in --list-cpu/--test-cpu
 - added Perl script to benchmark each of mpg123's CPU optimisations
+- portability enhancements and cleanups along with testing on SunOS 4.1.2 with gcc-2.7.0
+- workaround for ugly flexible rate for MMX/SSE/3DNowExt code:
+  --with-cpu=mmx also includes i586 code as fallback; similar with the others
 
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