[fpc-devel] win32 debugging broken in fixes_2_2?

[Florian Klaempfl]

Vinzent Hoefler schrieb:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 09:58, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 12:40, Yury Sidorov wrote:
>>> Maybe other way to detect SSE support exists...
>> CPUID?
> 
> To be more precise, the way recommended by Intel:
> 
> "To make this check, execute the CPUID instruction with an argument of 1 
> in the EAX register, and check that bit 25 (SSE) and/or bit 26 (SSE2) 
> are set to 1."
> 
>   -- IA32 Software Developer's Manual,
>      Volume 3: System Programming Guide

This gives you only the information that the CPU supports it but not if
the OS supports it.