Runtime Altivec detection

[Nathan Ingersoll]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:44:45PM +0000, Magnus Damm wrote:
>
> The latest released mplayer requires you to pass --enable-altivec to
> configure. A runtime check is then performed in: mplayer/cpudetect.c
> and ffmpeg/libavcodec/ppc/dsputil_altivec.c

Ok, that's pretty funny actually. Now that I've looked at that code, it
appears they use the same method I do. Slightly different code, but they
are writing it for an app, not a library. Strange that I wasn't able to
find this at all through google.

> Sorry, I think I was a little bit unclear in my question, Do you have
> to pass any specific flags to gcc to be able to complile altivec code,
> and if these flags are "-maltivec -mabi=altivec", is it possible to
> pass them to gcc and still compile for G3 (-mcpu=750)?
>
> It's a nice feature to be able to build one binary that is optimized
> for G3 but does runtime checks and enables altivec if present.

Those are probably incompatible flags, since you are telling it to
target a specific cpu, but also telling it to use features not present
in that cpu model.

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