SSSE3 -mssse3 or SSE3 -msse3?
Brooks Moses
brooks.moses@codesourcery.com
Wed Feb 14 23:25:00 GMT 2007
Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> 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.
Is the hyphen in "S-SSE3" the correct spelling, then? If so, the text
of the announcement should probably be edited....
- Brooks
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