[FFmpeg-devel] gcc 2.95.3 support plan

Loren Merritt lorenm
Wed Feb 11 18:07:20 CET 2009


On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
>
> It is absolutely safe to remove that function as it have never worked correctly
> in the first place. At the moment it is used when MMX_EXT is not
> present but 3DNow is. That condition is true only on K6-2/3 processors
> and they for sure do not have cmov instruction. (Table.9 AMD Processor
> Recognition 20734.pdf).

No, it is used when both MMXEXT and 3DNOW are present, i.e. k7, k8, and k10.
If y'all want I can add cmov detection to cpuid, and change my function to 
CMOV && 3DNOW. But it should be the same result on all existent cpus.

--Loren Merritt




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