In this context, I'm slightly worried about the line

688    if (hasSSE3) strcat(capabilities, "sse3 ");

in hostinfo_unix.cpp



>________________________________
> From: David Anderson <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected] 
>Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2013, 18:59
>Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] SSE3 detection (Radim Van?o)
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>Done.
>-- David
>
>On 08-Aug-2013 10:55 AM, Radim Vančo wrote:
>> Because kernel still returns pni I think that class_plan should also be 
>> changed
>> to use pni instead of sse3.
>>
>>
>> Dne 8.8.2013 19:50, Eric J Korpela napsal(a):
>>> PNI includes more than SSE related instructions.  That's probably why it's
>>> referred to as PNI rather than SSE3
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Michael Tughan <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At least on the Linux 3.8 VM I have immediate access to, it is still
>>>> referred by PNI, not SSE3. Whether that should fully determine how it's
>>>> called, I'm not sure. It's proper name, and the one that most people know
>>>> it by, is properly SSE3.
>>>>
>>>> Michael Tughan
>>>>
>>>> On 2013-08-08, at 1:40 PM, Eric J Korpela <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't believe the Linux kernel has changed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Rom Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> At the time that the code was written it also happened to be what the
>>>>>> Linux kernel was returning for the same instruction set in the CPU
>>>> features
>>>>>> area of /proc/cpuinfo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We should update it if the Linux kernel has changed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My goal was to be consistent across platforms.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Rom
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>>>> Of
>>>>>> Jorden van der Elst
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 1:32 PM
>>>>>> To: Robert Kreß
>>>>>> Cc: BOINC Dev Mailing List
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] SSE3 detection (Radim Van?o)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Robert Kreß <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> Well Boinc is detecting SSE3 if it’s present and usable – but one
>>>>>>> called it “pni” instead of SSE3 !?!
>>>>>> Not 'one' called it that, but Intel themselves.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3
>>>>>> "SSE3, Streaming SIMD Extensions 3, also known by its Intel code name
>>>>>> Prescott New Instructions (PNI)"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Jord van der Elst.
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