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Re: Cygwin installation choke


Chris,

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:57:43PM -0000, Chris January wrote:
> Corinna, the cpuid results are still valid if the user doesn't have NT. Only
> in the worst case scenario (i.e. a user running Windows 95/98 on a 486) will
> it be necessary to resort to falling back on the registry values alone.

thanks but your patch isn't valid AFAICS.  Besides the fact that a ChangeLog
is missing, it expects to find the same registry values as in NT.  But the
"~Mhz" value isn't available for example, only "VendorIdentifier", "Identifier"
and a REG_DWORD value called "Update Status".

> -	  if (IsProcessorFeaturePresent (PF_XMMI64_INSTRUCTIONS_AVAILABLE))
> -	    print (" sse2");
> +      if (!wincap.is_winnt ())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	     You don't mean this, do you?

> +        {
> +	      print ("flags           :");
> +	      if (IsProcessorFeaturePresent (PF_3DNOW_INSTRUCTIONS_AVAILABLE))
> +	        print (" 3dnow");

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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