From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 1 8:23:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA5E14D46 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA81513; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:23:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:23:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Assembler capable of supporting 3dnow! In-Reply-To: <199908010650.OAA13313@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > Stephen > -- > The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. > > "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce > the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know > this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message