[fpc-devel] win32 debugging broken in fixes_2_2?

[Yury Sidorov]

From: "Florian Klaempfl" <florian at freepascal.org>
> Martin Schreiber schrieb:
>> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14.53, vsnijders at quicknet.nl wrote:
>>>> And what should I do in MSEide? Disable SIGILL reporting by gdb?
>>>> How does Lazarus handle the problem?
>>> It does not handle it. If you handle it in MSEIDE, please let us 
>>> know how
>>> you did it.
>>>
>> The IDE must check where the SIGILL is created, prevent error 
>> reporting and
>> restart the program if the SIGILL is raised in the FPC SSE checking 
>> code...
>>
>> Question to the FPC developers:
>> Is there really no other method to check for SSE support?
>
> No, silly enough. Checking some cpuid result is enough to check if 
> the
> CPU supports it. But CPU support doesn't mean OS support. And to 
> check
> if the OS supports SSE you've to execute an sse instruction and 
> handle
> the exception.

Florian, to prevent SIGILL on non SSE CPUs we can first check CPUID 
and execute sse instruction only if CPUID reports SSE support.

Yury.