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Re: SSE1 support anytime soon?

Hi,

(caveat: presently I don't have a PIII neither a PIV at hand so I cannot
perform any experiment myself)

Tim Prince wrote:

> I noticed that the prerelease binutils announced yesterday continues to
> request only 4-byte alignments on my platform, so it is not supporting
> SSE.

This is unbelievable! Jan Hubicka back in february, that is well before the
binutils2.11 release, said that the support was present in the binutils
snapshots:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-02/msg00437.html

And in fact is still not there in 2.11.1 ?!?

>  In the past, I tried the -sse snapshot support, and it attempted
> to use mmx instructions mixed with x87 instructions, so was broken for
> anything less than P4.

You mean that on the P4, on the other hand, -msse2 works? Together with
which binutils ???

Cheers,
P.
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