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Re: [PATCH] Fix atomic_full_barrier on x86 and x86_64.


On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Torvald Riegel wrote:

> So, mfence seems to have been introduced with SSE2.  Should I try to
> test for SSE2 specifically, or rather assume SSE2 support for i786?

I think the i786 directories should be removed; config.guess will never 
return such a processor name for GNU/Linux at least (I don't know what it 
returns on Hurd).  The comment in sysdeps/i386/i786/Implies suggests it 
was for PII, but PII was still family 6 (and family 15 came after family 
6, I don't think there were any x86 processors with family numbers 7 to 
14).

So, anything conditional on SSE2 should test for __SSE2__.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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