Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!)

Marc Mutz (Marc@Mutz.com)
Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:16:58 +0200

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
<snip>
> Let's say I wrote software that would use MMX on ia32, AltiVec
> instructions on PowerPC, and VIS on the SPARC. I want to test for the
> appropriate feature at runtime. How? Must I write several parsers?
> I would want to collect my data with one cross-platform parser.
> Then I could just query for a "VIS" boolean.
>
And how would you distinguish MMXonly from 3Dnow from ISSE from
3Dnow-II?

Marc

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