On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:36:25 -0400 daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Well, sse, sse2, mmx, mmxext and 3dnow are x86 things, not amd64 | > things, so you don't get to play with them. altivec is ppc, so you | > can't play with that either. I'm guessing that the rest are masked | > due to non-working dependencies. | | then why are 3dnow, mmx, sse and sse2 in the flags section of cpuinfo? | or is this in no way related to the use flags?
Well, you always get them on amd64. But that's not what those USE flags are for -- they enable or disable x86-specific assembly stuff where relevant. On amd64, it's not relevant. I wanted to call the flags x86-3dnow, x86-sse, ppc-altivec, sparc-vis and so on to avoid this problem. Ah well. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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