CPU runtime check

[Patrick Pelissier]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 17:05:42 +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> I've built GMP 4.1.4 for MingW and Pentium-4 with SSE2. And
> it and the demos, works great btw. Good job!
> 
> If I distribute programs compiled with this library to users having
> only a plain old Pentium, will these programs run? Or just crash?
> 
> IOW, does gmp have a runtime check that it really is running on a
> Pentium-4/SSE2 procesor?

 It will simply crash with an "illegal instruction".

 Patrick