Re: Checking for SSE/MMX support

[joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:46:27AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> >What Geert tried to tell you was that this is not desired.
> >Please use the option framework and e.g. --enable-sse or whatever it is
> >and don't force any *compile time* detection. For example I'm building
> >packages on a P4-Xeon, they should also run on a Pentium MMX.
> 
>       Maybe the question was how to use sysctl(3) to detect it at
>       runtime?

Hm. Let's try machdep.sse and machdep.sse2? For mmx, cpuid.

Joerg


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