On 16 Feb 2002, Alexander Ehlert wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK there are no flags whatsoever to indicate which processor a plugin > might use. So if someone wants to hack a plugin that uses SSE > instructions and someone else tries to use that on a host without SSE > support -> crash. So wouldn't it be good to add some architecture flags, > that could be queried by the host?
Under Linux with proc filesystem support you can simply take a look at /proc/cpuinfo, specifically the flags line. There may even be some kind of kernel syscall that returns the processor flags that are set/available. Regards, David.
