Re: [Dri-devel] debugging question

[Brian P. <br...@tu...>]

Jacek Pop=B3awski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:12:17PM -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
>=20
>>Just continue when you hit the _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support()
>>function.  It's a normal part of start-up.  We found that the only
>>reliable way to detect SSE support (both CPU-wias and OS-wise) is
>>to try an SSE instruction and see if an exception is raised.
>=20
>=20
> In which reason this exception will be ommited? I mean - I remember I d=
ebugged
> OpenGL program without this exception. How it was possible? Older versi=
on of
> driver?

I think we've had this excaption handler for nearly 2 years.
Perhaps you didn't compile with USE_SSE_ASM in the past.  I think it
was off by default for a while.

-Brian