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authorAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2011-06-04 12:20:45 +0000
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2011-06-04 12:20:45 +0000
commit301799b803fc9f3e2adaad32b1ccace736bbe7cc (patch)
tree0edc73d8425ac47b5124104760cb0294c53b214f /doc
parent8d515259e2a4631a5b42f1a072b0ff6f8eba189c (diff)
x86[_64]cpuid.pl: add function accessing rdrand instruction.
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_ia32cap.pod b/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_ia32cap.pod
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+++ b/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_ia32cap.pod
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ moment of this writing following bits are significant:
=item bit #60 denoting AVX extension;
+=item bit #62 denoting availability of RDRAND instruction;
+
For example, clearing bit #26 at run-time disables high-performance
SSE2 code present in the crypto library, while clearing bit #24
disables SSE2 code operating on 128-bit XMM register bank. You might