> I assume the compiler is not stupid enough to try and use both when that
> is impossible. Don't forget this is all just passing a CPU name to gcc
> which actually decides what instructions to use.
That's not what I mean... What I mean is that if one application is using
SSE, and the other want
> Note that you'll need to have 'options CPU_ENABLE_SSE' in your kernel
> configuration file if you have a SSE-capable CPU, otherwise you'll get
> SIGILL from certain applications (e.g. ncurses)
What if you don't want to do this though? Athlon XP processors support SSE
instructions, but not at th
