Prepping for using MMX and SSE intrinsics instead of inline assembly.
.. except for memcpy equivalents which only get faster if they can
exploit the parallelism of loading into multiple SIMD registers. :)
> BTW, when setting up parallel make, I usually use # cpus + 1, so a compile is
> running while disk access is going for another.
[From Ryan]
My experience is that this works well on Linux, but is actually slower on
PowerPC Mac OS X...not sure if that's an architecture issue or a scheduler
issue, though, and haven't tried it on Intel Mac OS X.
- A change to define CXX in fatbuild, which comforts the configure script a little, even if we don't use C++ anywhere.
- Some code to see how many CPU cores exist and parallelize make across them.
- CFLAGS that apply to both archs are specified seperately (-O3, -pipe, etc)
- -fvisibility=hidden for the gcc4 builds
- a "clean", "clean-ppc" and "clean-x86" command
- Fix to SDL_config_macosx.h for the HAVE_ALLOCA_H thing.
Now builds on an Intel Mac.
The attached patch changes configure.in to use "-framework FOO" instead of
"-Wl,-framework,FOO".
This avoid some issues with certain versions of libtool that do not handle
-framework properly.
Some versions of libtool will try to reorder the two parts of the option, or
render the 2nd part of the argument to the relative path of a non-existent
library.
Note: It is not enough if SDL uses a version of libtool that does this
correctly, because these -framework options show up in "sdl-config --libs".
Hence, some 3rd party apps which still ship with an old libtool have troubles
compiling under Mac OS X.
From: "alan buckley"
Subject: Re: Updating SDL for RISC OS
I've attached a zip file with three diffs to get SDL to build on RISC OS.
configure.in.diff and makedeps.sh.diff have been modified so that they
can build the assembler file in video/riscos. You may want to double
check these as I don't know a lot about unix shell programming.
(I've tested them cross-compiling on cygwin).
sdlsysthread.diff is the changes required to SDL_systhread.c for RISC
OS. As you suspected with these changes in place you can delete the
RISC OS specific threading code in thread/riscos.
I've also renamed SDL_riscosASM.s to SDL_riscosASM.S, but I'm never
quite sure how to rename files in CVS, so if you could to this it would
be appreciated.
