[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] make --disable-mmx also disable sse{, 2}

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:43:32PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 2006/12/17, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org>:
> >since seems that sse requires mmx as the rest could make sense to be
> >consistent...
> 
> I don't think so. Most SSE/SSE2 routines don't (and shouldn't IMHO)
> involve any MMX instructions.

Huh? Doesn't SSE use the same registers as MMX? How then should it be
possible to use it without using MMX (in some extremely special cases it
might be possible without using MMX _instructions_ though, but even that
I think is unlikely).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger