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Re: sse{2,3,4.2}, altivec, neon, ...



On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 09:16:48AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> What is the expected interaction with the hwcaps based library
> installed paths? (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/{sse2,cmov}). Presumably
> libraries would still be expected to use those as appropriate?

hwcaps implies runtime detection, ie, your code runs on all CPUs, both those
with or without the extension in question.  No need to say "sorry I can't
support the baseline" if you can.

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