On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:46, Jon Ellis wrote:
> Can someone explain the sse / 3dnow! situation to me?
> 
> My understanding is that most modern intel and amd chips supprt sse, 
> but only amd support 3dnow! Is this correct? Why would someone with a 
> pentium 4 box have 3dnow in their use flags?

Pentium 3 - sse
Pentium 4 - sse/sse2
Athlon - 3dnow
AthlonXP - 3dnow/sse

> Does anyone point me a ebuilds that correctly handle this stuff? It 
> would be most useful to understand how protect users from themselves 
> and reduce the number 'invalid instruction' bugs filed against 
> libvorbis!

If you need some help with this ebuild, I'll gladly help, since I think
I might have been the one that caused you all the headache in the first
place.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> j.
> 
> 
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