27 Aug
2009
27 Aug
'09
1:40 p.m.
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 16:23 +0200, Conrad Berhörster wrote:
and the Code, Jens had posted, is only for P4 intels,
because it isn't
written for AMDs and not necessary for newer one, right?
Ehh no.
It works for anything that has SSE, survives a Pentium Pro but bails out
on 486 and Pentium Classic. The instruction used was not implemented yet
in those days.
The SSE level returned is wrong for a very tiny segment of AMD
processors when AMD couldn't make up their minds upon what kind of
product they wanted to be shipping. Still does the denormal trick
though.