Jacek Popławski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:12:17PM -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> In which reason this exception will be ommited? I mean - I remember I debugged
> OpenGL program without this exception. How it was possible? Older version 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




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