From:	Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: MMX Support
Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:37:03 +0200
Organization:	University of Ghent, Belgium
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Jason Nye wrote:
> 
> I am a new djgpp user and I was just wondering if anyone has heard if
> there are any plans to support MMX registers in any future versions of
> djgpp (or in the assembler).  This would be really nice since a common
> operation can be performed to all of them in parallel in one clock cycle
> (excellent for matrix stuff).

The gnu compiler does need them (there's no C/C++ expression which might
result in a MMX instruction). The assembler, I thought it already did,
but I may be mistaken since the assembler primary is used as the
compiler output translator. Adding library interface functions would
require emulation to be written for those not having MMX (like most of
us do (and don't know)), and that has not been done.
NASM supports them!

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