In VLC 4 we use __builtin_clz() since a1245add.
__builtin_clz()
But it's turned off for some old CPU architectures in FFmpeg 1.
core2 has support for builtin clz used by VLC. It should also be the minimum architecture for Intel mac. It also has sse3, unlike athlon64.
core2
athlon64
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/src/branch/release/7.1/configure#L6485 ↩