On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:11:09PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:01:23PM -0700, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser <[email protected]> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > I dislike this; just make the function mmx2.
> >> 
> >> I'm supporting this sentiment, at least somewhat, as in "I'd prefer to
> >> not add too many hacks for prehistoric cpus". Are there mmx-only cpus
> >> (possibly from Intel) that do support cmov? Or does cmov support imply
> >> sse/mmx2?
> >
> > cmov support implies nothing of the sort.  It appeared with the i686
> > architecture pioneered by the Pentium Pro, which did not even have MMX.
> 
> And on the flip side, the original Pentium MMX did not have cmov.  I
> don't think we particularly care about either of those CPUs though.

So what's a suitable way forward if the original patch is deemed too
ugly?  Ifdeffing out all the functions with HAVE_CMOV does not sound
better to me, so ideas welcome...

Diego
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