[cfe-dev] Intel: x87 vs sse

Fred J. Tydeman tydeman at tybor.com
Tue Jul 19 22:27:02 PDT 2011


For C programs, is there a way to tell the compiler what 
kind of floating-point unit (FPU) to generate code for?  
I am thinking of Intel CPUs with x87 versus sse.
This is for Linux.


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