SDL_intrin.h

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/* WIKI CATEGORY: Intrinsics */
 
/**
 * # CategoryIntrinsics
 *
 * SDL does some preprocessor gymnastics to determine if any CPU-specific
 * compiler intrinsics are available, as this is not necessarily an easy thing
 * to calculate, and sometimes depends on quirks of a system, versions of
 * build tools, and other external forces.
 *
 * Apps including SDL's headers will be able to check consistent preprocessor
 * definitions to decide if it's safe to use compiler intrinsics for a
 * specific CPU architecture. This check only tells you that the compiler is
 * capable of using those intrinsics; at runtime, you should still check if
 * they are available on the current system with the
 * [CPU info functions](https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryCPUInfo)
 * , such as SDL_HasSSE() or SDL_HasNEON(). Otherwise, the process might crash
 * for using an unsupported CPU instruction.
 *
 * SDL only sets preprocessor defines for CPU intrinsics if they are
 * supported, so apps should check with `#ifdef` and not `#if`.
 *
 * SDL will also include the appropriate instruction-set-specific support
 * headers, so if SDL decides to define SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS, it will also
 * `#include <emmintrin.h>` as well.
 */
 
#ifndef SDL_intrin_h_
#define SDL_intrin_h_
 
#include <SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h>
 
#ifdef SDL_WIKI_DOCUMENTATION_SECTION
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Loongarch LSX intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<lsxintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_LASX_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_LSX_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Loongarch LSX intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<lasxintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_LASX_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_LASX_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports ARM NEON intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<armintr.h>`
 * `<arm_neon.h>`, `<arm64intr.h>`, and `<arm64_neon.h>`, as appropriate.
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
#define SDL_NEON_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports ARM SVE2 intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, `<arm_sve.h>` (providing SVE intrinsics) will
 * only be included if the target architecture supports SVE
 * (`__ARM_FEATURE_SVE` feature macro). Some toolchains do not support
 * `SDL_TARGETING("arch=armv8-a+sve2")`, so for best portability you need to
 * write all SVE code in a separate translation unit and add appropriate
 * compile flags.
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.6.0.
 */
#define SDL_SVE2_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports PowerPC Altivec intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<altivec.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
#define SDL_ALTIVEC_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel MMX intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<mmintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_SSE_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_MMX_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel SSE intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<xmmintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE3_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_1_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_2_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_SSE_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel SSE2 intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<emmintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_SSE_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE3_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_1_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_2_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel SSE3 intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<pmmintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_SSE_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_1_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_2_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_SSE3_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel SSE4.1 intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<smmintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_SSE_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE3_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_2_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_SSE4_1_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel SSE4.2 intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<nmmintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_SSE_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE3_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_SSE4_1_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_SSE4_2_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel AVX intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<immintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_AVX2_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_AVX512F_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_AVX_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel AVX2 intrinsics.
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<immintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_AVX_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_AVX512F_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_AVX2_INTRINSICS 1
 
/**
 * Defined if (and only if) the compiler supports Intel AVX-512F intrinsics.
 *
 * AVX-512F is also sometimes referred to as "AVX-512 Foundation."
 *
 * If this macro is defined, SDL will have already included `<immintrin.h>`
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_AVX_INTRINSICS
 * \sa SDL_AVX2_INTRINSICS
 */
#define SDL_AVX512F_INTRINSICS 1
#endif
 
/* 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))
/* 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. */
#if defined(__clang__) && !SDL_HAS_BUILTIN(_m_prefetch)
#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>
 
#elif defined(__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR)
#include <intrin.h>
#if defined(__ARM_NEON) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_NEON)
#  define SDL_NEON_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <arm_neon.h>
#endif
#if !defined(SDL_DISABLE_SVE2)
#  define SDL_SVE2_INTRINSICS 1
#  if defined(__ARM_FEATURE_SVE)
#    include <arm_sve.h>
#  endif
#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 to have it included. */
#if defined(__ALTIVEC__) && defined(SDL_ENABLE_ALTIVEC)
#define SDL_ALTIVEC_INTRINSICS 1
#include <altivec.h>
#endif
#ifndef SDL_DISABLE_NEON
#  ifdef __ARM_NEON
#    define SDL_NEON_INTRINSICS 1
#    include <arm_neon.h>
#  elif defined(SDL_PLATFORM_WINDOWS)
/* Visual Studio doesn't define __ARM_ARCH, but _M_ARM (if set, always 7), and _M_ARM64 (if set, always 1). */
#    ifdef _M_ARM
#      define SDL_NEON_INTRINSICS 1
#      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)
#      define SDL_NEON_INTRINSICS 1
#      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
#ifndef SDL_DISABLE_SVE2
#  if defined(SDL_PLATFORM_WINDOWS)
/* Visual Studio doesn't define __ARM_ARCH, but _M_ARM (if set, always 7), and _M_ARM64 (if set, always 1). */
#    if defined (_M_ARM64) && 0 /* Please only remove this 0 when MSVC releasing support for SVE2 officially. */
#      define SDL_SVE2_INTRINSICS 1
#      define __ARM_FEATURE_SVE2 1 /* Set __ARM_FEATURE_SVE2 so that it can be used elsewhere, at compile time */
#      define __ARM_FEATURE_SVE 1 /* Set __ARM_FEATURE_SVE so that it can be used elsewhere, at compile time */
#      define __ARM_ARCH 8
#      include <arm_sve.h>
#    endif
#  elif defined(SDL_PLATFORM_APPLE)
/* Apple has no AArch64 device supporting SVE2 */
#  elif defined(__ARM_ARCH) && (__ARM_ARCH >= 8) && (defined(__aarch64__) || defined(_M_ARM64)) && \
        defined(__has_include)
#   if __has_include(<arm_sve.h>)
#    define SDL_SVE2_INTRINSICS 1
#    if defined(__ARM_FEATURE_SVE)
#      include <arm_sve.h>
#    endif
#   endif
#  endif
#endif
#endif /* compiler version */
 
#ifdef SDL_WIKI_DOCUMENTATION_SECTION
 
/**
 * A macro to decide if the compiler supports `__attribute__((target))`.
 *
 * Even though this is defined in SDL's public headers, it is generally not
 * used directly by apps. Apps should probably just use SDL_TARGETING
 * directly, instead.
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_TARGETING
 */
#define SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS
#elif defined(__loongarch64) && defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ >= 15)
/* LoongArch requires GCC 15+ for target attribute support */
# define SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS
#elif defined(__clang__) && defined(__has_attribute)
# if __has_attribute(target)
# define SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS
# endif
#elif defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__loongarch64) && (__GNUC__ + (__GNUC_MINOR__ >= 9) > 4) /* gcc >= 4.9 */
# define SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS
#elif defined(__ICC) && __ICC >= 1600
# define SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS
#endif
 
 
#ifdef SDL_WIKI_DOCUMENTATION_SECTION
 
/**
 * A macro to tag a function as targeting a specific CPU architecture.
 *
 * This is a hint to the compiler that a function should be built with support
 * for a CPU instruction set that might be different than the rest of the
 * program.
 *
 * The particulars of this are explained in the GCC documentation:
 *
 * https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#index-target-function-attribute
 *
 * An example of using this feature is to turn on SSE2 support for a specific
 * function, even if the rest of the source code is not compiled to use SSE2
 * code:
 *
 * ```c
 * #ifdef SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS
 * static void SDL_TARGETING("sse2") DoSomethingWithSSE2(char *x) {
 *    ...use SSE2 intrinsic functions, etc...
 * }
 * #endif
 *
 * // later...
 * #ifdef SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS
 * if (SDL_HasSSE2()) {
 *     DoSomethingWithSSE2(str);
 * }
 * #endif
 * ```
 *
 * The application is, on a whole, built without SSE2 instructions, so it will
 * run on Intel machines that don't support SSE2. But then at runtime, it
 * checks if the system supports the instructions, and then calls into a
 * function that uses SSE2 opcodes. The ifdefs make sure that this code isn't
 * used on platforms that don't have SSE2 at all.
 *
 * On compilers without target support, this is defined to nothing.
 *
 * This symbol is used by SDL internally, but apps and other libraries are
 * welcome to use it for their own interfaces as well.
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
#define SDL_TARGETING(x) __attribute__((target(x)))
 
#elif defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)
# define SDL_TARGETING(x) __attribute__((target(x)))
#else
# define SDL_TARGETING(x)
#endif
 
#ifdef __loongarch64
# ifndef SDL_DISABLE_LSX
#  define SDL_LSX_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <lsxintrin.h>
# endif
# ifndef SDL_DISABLE_LASX
#  define SDL_LASX_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <lasxintrin.h>
# endif
#endif
 
#if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_X64) || defined(__i386__) || defined(_M_IX86)
# if ((defined(_MSC_VER) && !defined(_M_X64)) || defined(__MMX__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_MMX)
#  define SDL_MMX_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <mmintrin.h>
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SSE__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_SSE)
#  define SDL_SSE_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <xmmintrin.h>
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SSE2__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_SSE2)
#  define SDL_SSE2_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <emmintrin.h>
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SSE3__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_SSE3)
#  define SDL_SSE3_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <pmmintrin.h>
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SSE4_1__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_SSE4_1)
#  define SDL_SSE4_1_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <smmintrin.h>
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SSE4_2__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_SSE4_2)
#  define SDL_SSE4_2_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <nmmintrin.h>
# endif
# if defined(__clang__) && (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SCE__)) && !defined(__AVX__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_AVX)
#  define SDL_DISABLE_AVX       /* see https://reviews.llvm.org/D20291 and https://reviews.llvm.org/D79194 */
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__AVX__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(_M_ARM64EC) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_AVX)
#  define SDL_AVX_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <immintrin.h>
# endif
# if defined(__clang__) && (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SCE__)) && !defined(__AVX2__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_AVX2)
#  define SDL_DISABLE_AVX2      /* see https://reviews.llvm.org/D20291 and https://reviews.llvm.org/D79194 */
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__AVX2__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(_M_ARM64EC) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_AVX2)
#  define SDL_AVX2_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <immintrin.h>
# endif
# if defined(__clang__) && (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__SCE__)) && !defined(__AVX512F__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_AVX512F)
#  define SDL_DISABLE_AVX512F   /* see https://reviews.llvm.org/D20291 and https://reviews.llvm.org/D79194 */
# endif
# if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__AVX512F__) || defined(SDL_HAS_TARGET_ATTRIBS)) && !defined(_M_ARM64EC) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_AVX512F)
#  define SDL_AVX512F_INTRINSICS 1
#  include <immintrin.h>
# endif
#endif /* defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_X64) || defined(__i386__) || defined(_M_IX86) */
 
#endif /* SDL_intrin_h_ */