[Flac-dev] FreeBSD 4.x problem resolved

[Josh Coalson]

--- Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Bryan Levin reported a problem of the FreeBSD flac port dumping
> core on FreeBSD 4.x:
> 
>
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1099004&group_id=13478&atid=113478
> 
> It turns out that the port enabled SSE support, but FreeBSD 4.x
> does not support SSE by default.  (FreeBSD 5.x and later do.)  I
> have added a small patch to the port to check at runtime whether
> the system handles SSE.
> 
> (The semantics of hw.instruction_sse are that a value of 1 means
> that the kernel includes SSE handling *and* the CPU supports SSE.
> A value of 0 means that the kernel will not handle SSE so it can't
> be used, although the system CPU may or may not support it.)

ok, thanks, I checked in the patch.

Josh



		
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