On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 07:43:08PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2024-07-30 21:01:31 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote: >> The main purpose of the XSAVE compiler check is to determine whether we >> need to add -mxsave in order to use _xgetbv() [0]. If that wasn't a >> factor, we could probably skip it. Earlier versions of the patch used >> inline assembly in the non-MSVC path to call XGETBV, which I was trying to >> avoid. > > My point is that _xgetbv() is made available by -mavx512vpopcntdq -mavx512bw > alone, without needing -mxsave:
Oh, I see. I'll work on a patch to remove that compiler check, then... -- nathan
