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On Sep 16, 2008, at 7:35 PM, "martinrb at google dot com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
The preprocessor symbol __MMX__ indicates whether this gcc
includes mmx support. This is extremely useful, but undocumented.
I only found out by finding the symbol in other peoples' code.
Some targets actually define this based some specifications of the
target. Spu and -mcpu=cell on powerpc define __SPU__/__PPU__ as
specified by the C/C++ language extension for the cbea document. I bet
x86 has this specified in their documentation rather than in GCC's
documentation.
The particular symbol __MMX__ should be documented in
the obvious place, namely where the -mmmx flag is documented
in the x86-specific page.
And of course, similarly for other such predefined flags.
I assume there's one for sse, but I haven't actually tried to find
out.
Here's a shell transcript, again compiling my favorite
source file, /dev/null:
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ~ $ gcc -mmmx -E -dD -x c /dev/null | sort > /
tmp/t1
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ~ $ gcc -mno-mmx -E -dD -x c /dev/null | sort
> /tmp/t2
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ~ $ diff /tmp/t[12]
92d91
< #define __MMX__ 1
--
Summary: Please document predefined sub-architecture support
macros
Product: gcc
Version: 4.2.3
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: preprocessor
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: martinrb at google dot com
GCC host triplet: x86_64-linux-gnu
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37550
