Detecting Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) support in Visual Studio???

[CodeExplorer 3,281]

Detecting Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) support in Visual Studio???
https://insufficientlycomplicated.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/detecting-intel-advanced-vector-extensions-avx-in-visual-studio/

The problem is that I have Visual Studio without Service Pack so _xgetbv method can't be used!
Any other ways to detect if a CPU hash AVX?
 

[Teddy Rogers 1,257]

Have you tried GetEnabledXStateFeatures? There is an example in the AVX Support Portal on how to use it.

Alternatively a more simpler approach is IsProcessorFeaturePresent.

Or in assembler calling CPUID...

Ted.

[kao 1,924]

6 hours ago, CodeExplorer said:

Visual Studio without Service Pack

..and any good reason NOT to install the service pack?

[CodeExplorer 3,281]

Thanks Ted for the good direction!
Here is the working code:

int isAvxSupported()
{
int HasAVX = 0;

   __asm
   {
xor eax, eax
  cpuid
  cmp eax, 1           // does CPUID support eax = 1?
  jb not_supported

  mov eax, 1
  cpuid
  and ecx, 402653184  // check 27 bit (OS uses XSAVE/XRSTOR)  018000000h
  cmp ecx, 402653184  // and 28       (AVX supported by CPU)  018000000h
  jne not_supported

  xor ecx, ecx         // XFEATURE_ENABLED_MASK/XCR0 register number = 0
  xgetbv               // XFEATURE_ENABLED_MASK register is in edx:eax
  and eax, 6        // 110b
  cmp eax, 6        // check the AVX registers restore at context switch
  jne not_supported

supported:
  mov HasAVX, 1

not_supported:
  mov HasAVX, 0
   }

return HasAVX;

}

I don't have AVX!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44144763/avx-feature-detection-using-sigill-versus-cpu-probing

 

Edited September 6 by CodeExplorer (see edit history)

[Teddy Rogers 1,257]

13 hours ago, CodeExplorer said:

I don't have AVX!

What CPU do you have?

Ted.

[CodeExplorer 3,281]

2 hours ago, Teddy Rogers said:

What CPU do you have?

Ted.

AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245
I know it is an very old CPU; I bought it 7 years ago!
I've thought to buy new motherboard/CPU/RAM.
 

[Extreme Coders 407]

Intel Software Emulator can be used for running AVX apps on a non-AVX cpu.
It emulates the unsupported instructions, so its quite slow than a native run, but better than not being able to run at all.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator