Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:16:58 +0200 | From | Marc Mutz <> | Subject | Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!) |
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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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