That was for FreeBSD.
I changed it to "pni".
-- David

On 08-Aug-2013 11:39 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote:
In this context, I'm slightly worried about the line

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

in hostinfo_unix.cpp

    
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    *From:* David Anderson <[email protected]>
    *To:* [email protected]
    *Sent:* Thursday, 8 August 2013, 18:59
    *Subject:* Re: [boinc_dev] SSE3 detection (Radim Van?o)

    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] <mailto:[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]
    <mailto:[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]
    <mailto:[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]
    <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]
    <mailto:[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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