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Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc trouble
From: "Joel Salomon" <salomo3@cooper.edu>
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:27:51 -0500
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> 3. Teach 8l (and 8a) about the additional instructions that GCC can
> produce (MMX, SSE etc.), or make GCC to not use them.
>

Adding the MMX/SSE instructions might not be a bad idea on its own, on the
off chance that some multimedia code gets ported to plan 9. After this
semester is done I'll try my hand at it.

IIRC, one/some of the 5273 options to gcc configure controls whether MMX
instructions are generated.

--Joel