SDL_cpuinfo.h
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/* WIKI CATEGORY: CPUInfo */
/**
* # CategoryCPUInfo
*
* CPU feature detection for SDL.
*
* These functions are largely concerned with reporting if the system has
* access to various SIMD instruction sets, but also has other important info
* to share, such as number of logical CPU cores.
*/
#ifndef SDL_cpuinfo_h_
#define SDL_cpuinfo_h_
#include "SDL_stdinc.h"
/* Need to do this here because intrin.h has C++ code in it */
/* Visual Studio 2005 has a bug where intrin.h conflicts with winnt.h */
#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1500) && (defined(_M_IX86) || defined(_M_X64))
#ifdef __clang__
/* As of Clang 11, '_m_prefetchw' is conflicting with the winnt.h's version,
so we define the needed '_m_prefetch' here as a pseudo-header, until the issue is fixed. */
#ifndef __PRFCHWINTRIN_H
#define __PRFCHWINTRIN_H
static __inline__ void __attribute__((__always_inline__, __nodebug__))
_m_prefetch(void *__P)
{
__builtin_prefetch (__P, 0, 3 /* _MM_HINT_T0 */);
}
#endif /* __PRFCHWINTRIN_H */
#endif /* __clang__ */
#include <intrin.h>
#ifndef _WIN64
#ifndef __MMX__
#define __MMX__
#endif
/*
#ifndef __3dNOW__
#define __3dNOW__
#endif
*/
#endif
#ifndef __SSE__
#define __SSE__
#endif
#ifndef __SSE2__
#define __SSE2__
#endif
#ifndef __SSE3__
#define __SSE3__
#endif
#elif defined(__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR)
#include <intrin.h>
#if !defined(SDL_DISABLE_ARM_NEON_H) && defined(__ARM_NEON)
# include <arm_neon.h>
#endif
#else
/* altivec.h redefining bool causes a number of problems, see bugs 3993 and 4392, so you need to explicitly define SDL_ENABLE_ALTIVEC_H to have it included. */
#if defined(HAVE_ALTIVEC_H) && defined(__ALTIVEC__) && !defined(__APPLE_ALTIVEC__) && defined(SDL_ENABLE_ALTIVEC_H)
#include <altivec.h>
#endif
#if !defined(SDL_DISABLE_ARM_NEON_H)
# if defined(__ARM_NEON)
# include <arm_neon.h>
# elif defined(__WINDOWS__) || defined(__WINRT__) || defined(__GDK__)
/* Visual Studio doesn't define __ARM_ARCH, but _M_ARM (if set, always 7), and _M_ARM64 (if set, always 1). */
# if defined(_M_ARM)
# include <armintr.h>
# include <arm_neon.h>
# define __ARM_NEON 1 /* Set __ARM_NEON so that it can be used elsewhere, at compile time */
# endif
# if defined (_M_ARM64)
# include <arm64intr.h>
# include <arm64_neon.h>
# define __ARM_NEON 1 /* Set __ARM_NEON so that it can be used elsewhere, at compile time */
# define __ARM_ARCH 8
# endif
# endif
#endif
#endif /* compiler version */
#if defined(__3dNOW__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_MM3DNOW_H)
#include <mm3dnow.h>
#endif
#if defined(__loongarch_sx) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_LSX_H)
#include <lsxintrin.h>
#define __LSX__
#endif
#if defined(__loongarch_asx) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_LASX_H)
#include <lasxintrin.h>
#define __LASX__
#endif
#if defined(HAVE_IMMINTRIN_H) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_IMMINTRIN_H) && \
(defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_X64) || defined(__i386__) || defined(_M_IX86))
#include <immintrin.h>
#else
#if defined(__MMX__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_MMINTRIN_H)
#include <mmintrin.h>
#endif
#if defined(__SSE__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_XMMINTRIN_H)
#include <xmmintrin.h>
#endif
#if defined(__SSE2__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_EMMINTRIN_H)
#include <emmintrin.h>
#endif
#if defined(__SSE3__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_PMMINTRIN_H)
#include <pmmintrin.h>
#endif
#endif /* HAVE_IMMINTRIN_H */
#include "begin_code.h"
/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/* This is a guess for the cacheline size used for padding.
* Most x86 processors have a 64 byte cache line.
* The 64-bit PowerPC processors have a 128 byte cache line.
* We'll use the larger value to be generally safe.
*/
#define SDL_CACHELINE_SIZE 128
/**
* Get the number of CPU cores available.
*
* \returns the total number of logical CPU cores. On CPUs that include
* technologies such as hyperthreading, the number of logical cores
* may be more than the number of physical cores.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*/
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetCPUCount(void);
/**
* Determine the L1 cache line size of the CPU.
*
* This is useful for determining multi-threaded structure padding or SIMD
* prefetch sizes.
*
* \returns the L1 cache line size of the CPU, in bytes.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*/
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetCPUCacheLineSize(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has the RDTSC instruction.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has the RDTSC instruction or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasRDTSC(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has AltiVec features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using PowerPC instruction
* sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has AltiVec features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasAltiVec(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has MMX features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has MMX features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasMMX(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has 3DNow! features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using AMD instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has 3DNow! features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_Has3DNow(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has SSE features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has SSE features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasSSE(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has SSE2 features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has SSE2 features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasSSE2(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has SSE3 features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has SSE3 features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasSSE3(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has SSE4.1 features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has SSE4.1 features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasSSE41(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has SSE4.2 features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has SSE4.2 features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasSSE42(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has AVX features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has AVX features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.2.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX2
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasAVX(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has AVX2 features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has AVX2 features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.4.
*
* \sa SDL_Has3DNow
* \sa SDL_HasAltiVec
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
* \sa SDL_HasMMX
* \sa SDL_HasRDTSC
* \sa SDL_HasSSE
* \sa SDL_HasSSE2
* \sa SDL_HasSSE3
* \sa SDL_HasSSE41
* \sa SDL_HasSSE42
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasAVX2(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has AVX-512F (foundation) features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has AVX-512F features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.9.
*
* \sa SDL_HasAVX
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasAVX512F(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has ARM SIMD (ARMv6) features.
*
* This is different from ARM NEON, which is a different instruction set.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using ARM instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has ARM SIMD features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.12.
*
* \sa SDL_HasNEON
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasARMSIMD(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has NEON (ARM SIMD) features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using ARM instruction sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has ARM NEON features or SDL_FALSE if not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.6.
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasNEON(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has LSX (LOONGARCH SIMD) features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using LOONGARCH instruction
* sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has LOONGARCH LSX features or SDL_FALSE if
* not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.24.0.
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasLSX(void);
/**
* Determine whether the CPU has LASX (LOONGARCH SIMD) features.
*
* This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using LOONGARCH instruction
* sets.
*
* \returns SDL_TRUE if the CPU has LOONGARCH LASX features or SDL_FALSE if
* not.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.24.0.
*/
extern DECLSPEC SDL_bool SDLCALL SDL_HasLASX(void);
/**
* Get the amount of RAM configured in the system.
*
* \returns the amount of RAM configured in the system in MiB.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.1.
*/
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetSystemRAM(void);
/**
* Report the alignment this system needs for SIMD allocations.
*
* This will return the minimum number of bytes to which a pointer must be
* aligned to be compatible with SIMD instructions on the current machine. For
* example, if the machine supports SSE only, it will return 16, but if it
* supports AVX-512F, it'll return 64 (etc). This only reports values for
* instruction sets SDL knows about, so if your SDL build doesn't have
* SDL_HasAVX512F(), then it might return 16 for the SSE support it sees and
* not 64 for the AVX-512 instructions that exist but SDL doesn't know about.
* Plan accordingly.
*
* \returns the alignment in bytes needed for available, known SIMD
* instructions.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.10.
*/
extern DECLSPEC size_t SDLCALL SDL_SIMDGetAlignment(void);
/**
* Allocate memory in a SIMD-friendly way.
*
* This will allocate a block of memory that is suitable for use with SIMD
* instructions. Specifically, it will be properly aligned and padded for the
* system's supported vector instructions.
*
* The memory returned will be padded such that it is safe to read or write an
* incomplete vector at the end of the memory block. This can be useful so you
* don't have to drop back to a scalar fallback at the end of your SIMD
* processing loop to deal with the final elements without overflowing the
* allocated buffer.
*
* You must free this memory with SDL_FreeSIMD(), not free() or SDL_free() or
* delete[], etc.
*
* Note that SDL will only deal with SIMD instruction sets it is aware of; for
* example, SDL 2.0.8 knows that SSE wants 16-byte vectors (SDL_HasSSE()), and
* AVX2 wants 32 bytes (SDL_HasAVX2()), but doesn't know that AVX-512 wants
* 64. To be clear: if you can't decide to use an instruction set with an
* SDL_Has*() function, don't use that instruction set with memory allocated
* through here.
*
* SDL_AllocSIMD(0) will return a non-NULL pointer, assuming the system isn't
* out of memory, but you are not allowed to dereference it (because you only
* own zero bytes of that buffer).
*
* \param len The length, in bytes, of the block to allocate. The actual
* allocated block might be larger due to padding, etc.
* \returns a pointer to the newly-allocated block, NULL if out of memory.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.10.
*
* \sa SDL_SIMDGetAlignment
* \sa SDL_SIMDRealloc
* \sa SDL_SIMDFree
*/
extern DECLSPEC void * SDLCALL SDL_SIMDAlloc(const size_t len);
/**
* Reallocate memory obtained from SDL_SIMDAlloc
*
* It is not valid to use this function on a pointer from anything but
* SDL_SIMDAlloc(). It can't be used on pointers from malloc, realloc,
* SDL_malloc, memalign, new[], etc.
*
* \param mem The pointer obtained from SDL_SIMDAlloc. This function also
* accepts NULL, at which point this function is the same as
* calling SDL_SIMDAlloc with a NULL pointer.
* \param len The length, in bytes, of the block to allocated. The actual
* allocated block might be larger due to padding, etc. Passing 0
* will return a non-NULL pointer, assuming the system isn't out of
* memory.
* \returns a pointer to the newly-reallocated block, NULL if out of memory.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.14.
*
* \sa SDL_SIMDGetAlignment
* \sa SDL_SIMDAlloc
* \sa SDL_SIMDFree
*/
extern DECLSPEC void * SDLCALL SDL_SIMDRealloc(void *mem, const size_t len);
/**
* Deallocate memory obtained from SDL_SIMDAlloc
*
* It is not valid to use this function on a pointer from anything but
* SDL_SIMDAlloc() or SDL_SIMDRealloc(). It can't be used on pointers from
* malloc, realloc, SDL_malloc, memalign, new[], etc.
*
* However, SDL_SIMDFree(NULL) is a legal no-op.
*
* The memory pointed to by `ptr` is no longer valid for access upon return,
* and may be returned to the system or reused by a future allocation. The
* pointer passed to this function is no longer safe to dereference once this
* function returns, and should be discarded.
*
* \param ptr The pointer, returned from SDL_SIMDAlloc or SDL_SIMDRealloc, to
* deallocate. NULL is a legal no-op.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.10.
*
* \sa SDL_SIMDAlloc
* \sa SDL_SIMDRealloc
*/
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_SIMDFree(void *ptr);
/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#include "close_code.h"
#endif /* SDL_cpuinfo_h_ */
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SDL_HasSSE2
SDL_bool SDL_HasSSE2(void)
SDL_HasSSE42
SDL_bool SDL_HasSSE42(void)
SDL_HasARMSIMD
SDL_bool SDL_HasARMSIMD(void)
SDL_HasNEON
SDL_bool SDL_HasNEON(void)
SDL_HasSSE3
SDL_bool SDL_HasSSE3(void)
SDL_HasAVX2
SDL_bool SDL_HasAVX2(void)
SDL_HasSSE41
SDL_bool SDL_HasSSE41(void)
SDL_HasMMX
SDL_bool SDL_HasMMX(void)
SDL_HasAltiVec
SDL_bool SDL_HasAltiVec(void)
SDL_SIMDAlloc
void * SDL_SIMDAlloc(const size_t len)
SDL_SIMDFree
void SDL_SIMDFree(void *ptr)
SDL_SIMDGetAlignment
size_t SDL_SIMDGetAlignment(void)
SDL_HasLASX
SDL_bool SDL_HasLASX(void)
SDL_GetSystemRAM
int SDL_GetSystemRAM(void)
SDL_HasAVX512F
SDL_bool SDL_HasAVX512F(void)
SDL_GetCPUCount
int SDL_GetCPUCount(void)
SDL_HasAVX
SDL_bool SDL_HasAVX(void)
SDL_GetCPUCacheLineSize
int SDL_GetCPUCacheLineSize(void)
SDL_HasRDTSC
SDL_bool SDL_HasRDTSC(void)
SDL_HasSSE
SDL_bool SDL_HasSSE(void)
SDL_HasLSX
SDL_bool SDL_HasLSX(void)
SDL_Has3DNow
SDL_bool SDL_Has3DNow(void)
SDL_SIMDRealloc
void * SDL_SIMDRealloc(void *mem, const size_t len)
SDL_stdinc.h
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begin_code.h
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