SSE testcase failure

[Luca Benini]

Anders Carlsson wrote:
> looking in the intel manuals, the xmm registers are SSE2 only which 
No, also for SSE extension
> causes the test case to terminate with a SIGILL error on my PIII 
that has that instruction.

Are you sure is a ISA problem? Your prg crash with an happy message like
Illegal instruction ?

Try this
int main()
{
   asm ("xorps %%xmm0, %%xmm0"
         :/* no output*/
         :/* no input */
       );
   return 0;
}
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