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On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 16:15 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: |
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> The new valgrind version (3.0.0) requires sse support. If you have a |
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> processor without sse, you'll need to stay at 2.4.1. |
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> To make people aware of this, I could use the sse use flag in 3.0.0 |
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> and die if it is not present, telling people to mask versions 3.0.0 |
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> and up if they have a processor without sse. I would also have to check |
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> the arch before requiring sse. |
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> Is there a better way to do this? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Maurice. |
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I don't think arch will help you much, at least not with x86 - x86 |
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contains both CPUs like P4 that have SSE and i686 that does not. |
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I am not sure if it is better, but you can |
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cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep sse |
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and die if not found. |
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Cheers, |
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Ivan Yosifov. |
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