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Re: Architecture Nomenclature



Am Dienstag, den 27.04.2010, 14:45 -0700 schrieb Kip Warner:
> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 21:43 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > It must be 'i386'.
> 
> But i386 includes machines like the 486 and the Pentium Pro that did not
> have SSE2 instruction set.
> 
> If I was writing something for a 32-bit machine with SSE2 instruction
> set, what would be the most appropriate architecture name?

The best solution would be autodetection of SSE2 on runtime. That can be
done with a few lines of code.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)

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