[LLVMdev] RFC: AVX Feature Specification

[Stefanus Du Toit]

On 30-Apr-09, at 6:38 PM, Dan Gohman wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:02 PM, David Greene wrote:
>> As I've been going along I've added feature flags for SSE4a and
>> SSE5.  These
>> really do need to be separate feature flags because having SSE4a and/
>> or SSE5
>> does not imply that you have SSE4.2 or SSE4.1.  So they can't be
>> part of the
>> X86SSELevel scheme.
>>
[...]
>
> Offhand, I'd say SSE4a and SSE5 ought to be separate flags too.

FWIW we added a flag for SSE4A in a commit yesterday, as well as more  
AMD architecture types.

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