[FFmpeg-devel] Does i686 have MMX?
David Conrad
lessen42
Sat Aug 28 21:03:44 CEST 2010
On Aug 28, 2010, at 10:23 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:51:13AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>> I was talking about mmx/sse/etc being treated specially compared to
>>> e.g. altivec or neon.
>>
>> I'd like to mention that altivec is only special since we realized
>> we just can't properly test for altivec at runtime.
>
> But we do test for altivec at runtime on several operating systems,
> whether or not it makes sense.
Since "-maltivec -mabi=altivec" is the preferred flags for enabling Altivec and they're applied globally, the runtime check only works if you compile with an ancient Apple gcc.
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