Re: [Valgrind-developers] Valgrind, PPC and CPU detection

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

> Has it already been considered before to use the value of the PVR
> register for PPC instruction set detection in Valgrind ?

No.  I didn't know of its existence.  Is the instruction usable from 
user space?

In fact the SIGILL scheme works pretty well most of the time, afaics,
and means we don't have to drag around a big table listing all known
PowerPC/POWER CPUs.  Is there a specific difficulty with the SIGILL
scheme?

J