SSE testcase failure

[Anders Carlsson]

Luca Benini skrev:

> 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;
> }

Hmm, you're right. This doesn't crash. I'll investigate further.

Regards,
Anders