Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:23:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Assembler capable of supporting 3dnow! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908011121560.81410-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199908010650.OAA13313@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:
> I'm messing around with the latest mesa and have discovered (suprise)that our
> assembler doesn't support 3dnow instructions. Are there any plans to update to
> a version of binutils that does? Linux's stuff appears to support it.
>
According to dfr, no, since the releases are in "beta" now or something.
I think it's worth updating. And no, it would be too hard to get 3DNow!
wihtouut updating gas. However: you can use the linux_devutils gcc/as/ld
etc. to build the parts of whatever you need with 3dnow instructions.
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> Stephen
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