[MPlayer-users] cpu detection, athlon-4 vs. athlon-xp

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Corey Hickey wrote:

CH>I have a family 6, model 8, stepping 0, AthlonXP 2200+ that ./configure
CH>detects as an athlon-4 rather than an athlon-xp. As far as I can tell,
CH>
CH>Is this correct? Should my CPU be detected as athlon-xp, or as an
CH>athlon-4? Either way, does this result in different optimizations for
CH>gcc-3.2, and does it matter?

That doesn't matter at all, for gcc-3.2.1 athlon-4, athlon-xp and
athlon-mp are the same.
Look at /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-(your-distribution)/3.2.1/specs (or
similar name).

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Vladimir