[Rock-dev] Enable SSE2 typedefs (emmintrin.h)

[Matthias Goldhoorn]

On 03.05.2012 08:50, Jakob Schwendner wrote:
> On 05/02/2012 07:09 PM, Leif Christensen wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> on my 32 bit ubuntu, the compilation of components, that include
>> libelas/elas.h fails, because the type __m128i is not declared.
>>
>> elas.h includes the mmx extension header emmintrin.h, which checks for
>> the define __SSE2__ and only then declares __m128i and others.
>>
>> On my machine (where /proc/cpuinfo has the sse2 flag), __SSE2__ is
>> only defined if I add -msse2 to my cxx flags.
>>
>> I would suggest to use something like FindSSE.cmake (for example from
>> http://gitorious.org/vc/vc/blobs/master/cmake/FindSSE.cmake) to check
>> for SSE-extensions and then use SSEx_FOUND in the CMakeList.txt files
>> of packages that use libelas, e.g.
>>
>> IF(SSE2_FOUND)
>>    ADD_DEFINITIONS(-msse2)
>> ENDIF(SSE2_FOUND)
>> [...]
>>
>> The only standard CMAKE_MODULE_PATH in rock seems to be
>> [...]/base/types/cmake, so we could put FindSSE.cmake there. There are
>> already other .cmake files, even though I don't know what they have to
>> do with base types.
>>
>> Thoughts on that?
> +1
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Not sure how SSE support is implemented in these packages, if sse2 
support enables additional functions

-1

because it can brak compatibility between the packages and add some 
"magic function enabling" on some machines.
In this case the user which needs this should manually (e.g. in the 
overrides) take care of this flags.
But if this flag only enabled optimization (without additional 
extern-accessible-functions)

+1

Matthias

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