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Re: SSSE3 -mssse3 or SSE3 -msse3?
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: jc-nospam at jr-pizarro dot jazztel dot es (J.C.)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:57:17 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: SSSE3 -mssse3 or SSE3 -msse3?
>
> In http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/changes.html appears
>
> "Support for SSSE3 built-in functions and code generation are available
> via |-mssse3|."
>
> Is it SSE3 (i686 SIMD) or SSSE3 (strange, unknown)?
> Is it -mssse3 or -msse3?
-mssse3 is S-SSE3 which was added for code dual 2.
Yes the option is weird but that is what Intel wantted it to be called.
I don't want to start another fight with their stupid marketing guys
again like what happened with pentium4.
-- Pinski