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AMD Releases Hammer documentation

Posted by timothy on from the aim-swing-repeat dept.

Jonathan Graham writes: "Last Thursday AMD posted the five volume architectural manual to their new x86-64 processor on their website. The tomes are as follows: Application Programming, System Programming,General Purpose and System Instructions,128-bit Media Instructions and 64-bit Media and x87 Floating Point Instructions. Gentlemen...start your compilers! (or start writing them!)"

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  1. Re:What a waste by droidix · · Score: 2, Informative

    gcc does have -march=athlon though

  2. Re:What a waste by leviramsey · · Score: 4, Informative
    gcc for Linux has those -i486, 586 and 686 flags, but no -amd flag

    You're not using gcc-3.2, are you?

    gcc-3.2 has both -mcpu=athlon and -march=athlon flags.

    Yeah, gcc-2.95 won't optimize for athlon, but the only excuse for using an outdated compiler like that is if you're a debian user, in which case you don't give a shit about keeping up with the joneses, anyway.

  3. GCC already supports x86-64 by vojtech · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why talk about athlon optimizations? GCC already supports the x86-64 arch, and Linux runs on it, see http://www.x86-64.org

  4. gcc already supports the amd x86-64 by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 5, Informative

    See gcc news.