On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:

> I'm messing around with the latest mesa and have discovered (suprise)that our 
> assembler doesn't support 3dnow instructions. Are there any plans to update to 
> a version of binutils that does? Linux's stuff appears to support it.
> 

According to dfr, no, since the releases are in "beta" now or something.
I think it's worth updating. And no, it would be too hard to get 3DNow!
wihtouut updating gas. However: you can use the linux_devutils gcc/as/ld
etc. to build the parts of whatever you need with 3dnow instructions.

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