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 system RAM size and number of logical CPU cores.
 *
 * CPU instruction set checks, like SDL_HasSSE() and SDL_HasNEON(), are
 * available on all platforms, even if they don't make sense (an ARM processor
 * will never have SSE and an x86 processor will never have NEON, for example,
 * but these functions still exist and will simply return false in these
 * cases).
 */
 
#ifndef SDL_cpuinfo_h_
#define SDL_cpuinfo_h_
 
#include <SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h>
 
#include <SDL3/SDL_begin_code.h>
/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
 
/**
 * 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 use the larger value to be
 * generally safe.
 *
 * \since This macro is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
#define SDL_CACHELINE_SIZE  128
 
/**
 * Get the number of logical 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.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetNumLogicalCPUCores(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.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetCPUCacheLineSize(void);
 
/**
 * Determine whether the CPU has AltiVec features.
 *
 * This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using PowerPC instruction
 * sets.
 *
 * \returns true if the CPU has AltiVec features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has MMX features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC bool SDLCALL SDL_HasMMX(void);
 
/**
 * Determine whether the CPU has SSE features.
 *
 * This always returns false on CPUs that aren't using Intel instruction sets.
 *
 * \returns true if the CPU has SSE features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE2
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE3
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE41
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE42
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has SSE2 features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE3
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE41
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE42
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has SSE3 features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE2
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE41
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE42
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has SSE4.1 features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE2
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE3
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE42
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has SSE4.2 features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE2
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE3
 * \sa SDL_HasSSE41
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has AVX features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasAVX2
 * \sa SDL_HasAVX512F
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has AVX2 features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasAVX
 * \sa SDL_HasAVX512F
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has AVX-512F features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasAVX
 * \sa SDL_HasAVX2
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has ARM SIMD features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_HasNEON
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has ARM NEON features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has LOONGARCH LSX features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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 true if the CPU has LOONGARCH LASX features or false if not.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC 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.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 */
extern SDL_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.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
 *
 * \sa SDL_aligned_alloc
 * \sa SDL_aligned_free
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC size_t SDLCALL SDL_GetSIMDAlignment(void);
 
/**
 * Report the size of a page of memory.
 *
 * Different platforms might have different memory page sizes. In current
 * times, 4 kilobytes is not unusual, but newer systems are moving to larger
 * page sizes, and esoteric platforms might have any unexpected size.
 *
 * Note that this function can return 0, which means SDL can't determine the
 * page size on this platform. It will _not_ set an error string to be
 * retrieved with SDL_GetError() in this case! In this case, defaulting to
 * 4096 is often a reasonable option.
 *
 * \returns the size of a single page of memory, in bytes, or 0 if SDL can't
 *          determine this information.
 *
 * \threadsafety It is safe to call this function from any thread.
 *
 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.4.0.
 */
extern SDL_DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetSystemPageSize(void);
 
/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#include <SDL3/SDL_close_code.h>
 
#endif /* SDL_cpuinfo_h_ */