From: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:45:41 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: improved solution for xgetbv() on windows and linux with all compilers
X-Git-Tag: 4.2~31
X-Git-Url: https://main.carlh.net/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb5c969ac09cbc81aa7c5c3aff1d6850bffdf40f;p=ardour.git

improved solution for xgetbv() on windows and linux with all compilers
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diff --git a/libs/pbd/fpu.cc b/libs/pbd/fpu.cc
index 869c0b66fb..29d09f7aa9 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/fpu.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/fpu.cc
@@ -37,22 +37,6 @@
 using namespace PBD;
 using namespace std;
 
-/* This function is provided by MSVC are part of the compiler instrinsics. We
- * don't care about this on OS X (though perhaps we should), but we need to
- * test AVX support on Linux also. This doesn't work on OS X because 
- * the compiler is different there. 
- */
-
-#if __GNUC__ > 4 || __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4
-static inline unsigned long long _xgetbv(unsigned int index){
-  unsigned int eax, edx;
-  __asm__ __volatile__("xgetbv" : "=a"(eax), "=d"(edx) : "c"(index));
-  return ((unsigned long long)edx << 32) | eax;
-}
-#else
-#define _xgetbv() 0
-#endif
-
 FPU::FPU ()
 {
 	unsigned long cpuflags = 0;
@@ -126,8 +110,15 @@ FPU::FPU ()
 		 * the 2nd and 3rd bits, indicating correct register save/restore.
 		 */
 
-		uint64_t xcrFeatureMask = _xgetbv (0);
+		uint64_t xcrFeatureMask = 0;
 
+#if __GNUC__ > 4 || __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4
+		unsigned int eax, edx, index = 0;
+		asm volatile("xgetbv" : "=a"(eax), "=d"(edx) : "c"(index));
+		xcrFeatureMask = ((unsigned long long)edx << 32) | eax;
+#elif defined (COMPILER_MSVC)
+		xcrFeatureMask = _xgetbv(_XCR_XFEATURE_ENABLED_MASK);
+#endif
 		if (xcrFeatureMask & 0x6) {
 			std::cerr << "Definitely AVX\n";
 			_flags = Flags (_flags | (HasAVX) );