On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 16:15 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: > The new valgrind version (3.0.0) requires sse support. If you have a > processor without sse, you'll need to stay at 2.4.1. > > To make people aware of this, I could use the sse use flag in 3.0.0 > and die if it is not present, telling people to mask versions 3.0.0 > and up if they have a processor without sse. I would also have to check > the arch before requiring sse. > > Is there a better way to do this? > > Thanks, > Maurice. >
I don't think arch will help you much, at least not with x86 - x86 contains both CPUs like P4 that have SSE and i686 that does not. I am not sure if it is better, but you can cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep sse and die if not found. Cheers, Ivan Yosifov. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
