Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #69149, comment 2


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Feb 2, 2024, 5:53:48 AM (9 months ago)
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kencu (Ken)
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  • Ticket #69149, comment 2

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    11the xgetbv instruction is not understood by the assembler being used.
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    3 One option might be to use a newer assembler (you recall that if a clang version >= 5.0 is installed, macports' cctools will use that clang version as the assembler).
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    5 Another option is to replace the xgetbv instruction if needed. There is a handy syntax to use to put in new assembler instruction in the code itself.
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    7 Here's a stackoverflow about this instruction:
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    9 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72522885/are-the-xgetbv-and-cpuid-checks-sufficient-to-guarantee-avx2-support
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    11 and here's some intel docs about it:
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    13 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72522885/are-the-xgetbv-and-cpuid-checks-sufficient-to-guarantee-avx2-support
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    15 here's a gcc bug saying gcc perhaps should have worked around this, but this was not properly fixed in gcc until gcc 9:
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    17 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71659
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