Add configure test to verify SSE2 code compiles.
Make sure that emmintrin.h can be #include'd without causing a
compilation error, rather than blindly defining HAVE_SSE2 based on
architecture. Attempts to force SSE2 compilation on a 32-bit Ubuntu
13.10 system running as a VMware guest resulted in a no-win choice
without any obvious explanation besides toolchain misconfiguration/bug:
- Suffer compilation failure due to __MMX__, __SSE__, and __SSE2__ not
being defined, even if -mmmx, -msse, and -msse2 are manually
specified (note that they appear to be enabled by default).
- Manually define __MMX__, __SSE__, and __SSE2__, and suffer compiler
warnings that they are already automatically defined. This results in
successful compilation and execution, but the noise is intolerable.
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