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LLVM Compiler Finally Ends Support For AMD's 3DNow!


The open-source LLVM compiler today dropped support for AMD's long forgotten 3DNow! instructions.

Try it today to view our site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and more while the proceeds allow us to write more Linux hardware reviews. hasn't even been found on AMD processors since the Bulldozer era and now in 2024 the LLVM compiler is finally removing support for it. macros and options are removed along with the associated header file being deprecated and all of the 3DNow intrinsic functions having been cleared out along with the compiler built-ins.

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