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Re: hwcap supporting architectures?



On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:59:41PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>  Since the optimized i386 library does use MMX (it does perform runtime
>  checking) and is compiled with -mcpu=i686 [0] (gcc doesn't seem to be
>  emitting CMOVs though) I think the proper place is
>  /usr/lib/i686/mmx/cmov

If it does runtime checking you should not store it in an mmx hwcap dir,
because that way it will never be called on non-mmx  systems.

Greetings
Bernd
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