SSE check incorrect + strndup fix
Christophe Massiot
massiot at via.ecp.fr
Sat Jun 15 13:51:39 CEST 2002
À (At) 2:05 -0700 15/06/2002, Steven M. Schultz écrivait (wrote) :
> The SSE check in ./configure is not correct. It is _not_ safe
> to assume that if a SSE instruction compiles that the OS supports
> SSE!
That's exactly what we're doing. The test in configure just tests if
we can _compile_ SSE (resp. MMX, Altivec, etc.) operands. Whether the
OS (and machine) supports SSE can only be determined at runtime (and
depends on the OS version and machine), and it is done in
src/misc/cpu.c.
--
Christophe Massiot.
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