[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATH] test if cpu supports CMOV

[Zuxy Meng]

Hi,

2006/10/13, Guillaume Poirier <gpoirier at mplayerhq.hu>:
> Hi,
> The attached patch (hopefully) allows to test for the presence of CMOV
> instruction, introduced in _real_ i686 CPUs.
> It's needed for latest and greatest CABAC code, as some cpus that
> claim to be i686 do not support cmov (such as VIA C3).
>
> This patch creates #define HAVE_CMOV 1 for config.h and
> TARGET_CMOV=yes for config.mak.
> I don't know if the name is too wise, maybe it would be better to have
>  HAVE_X86_CMOV to specify that were are talking about x86 in
> particular (other CPU support conditional move too, sadly, PPC doesn't).
>

Why not detect it at run-time in cputest.c, just like what we've done
for 3DNow!, SSE, etc.?

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