Re: Intel Fortran Compiler

From: Steve Lionel (Steve.Lionel_at_intel.com)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:42:54 -0500

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:06:47 +0000 (UTC), Dr Chaos
<mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

>Does this mean if I compile with -xW, and run on an Athlon 64, the
>code will work and successfully use SSE2 instructions (implemented in
>Athlon 64)?

-xW does not do the CPUID check, so the instructions are executed. Whether
they are successfully executed depends on how faithful the implementation is.
Note that -xW may not be supported in future versions of the compiler.

Steve Lionel
Software Products Division
Intel Corporation
Nashua, NH

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