Should -msse3 enable fisttp
Eric Christopher
echristo@apple.com
Mon Oct 3 22:49:00 GMT 2005
>
> Actually it enables more than the builtins. It enables the use sse3
> instructions. This is just like -maltivec on PowerPC and -msse and
> -msse
> on x86, etc.
Right, so the manual disagrees and should probably be fixed.
> And then RTH agreed:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-03/msg01432.html
>
> So from the sound of it fisttp is not a SSE3 instruction.
Richard's response was that it shouldn't be turned off by -mno-sse3,
not that it shouldn't be turned on for -msse3. I think it probably
should be turned on there.
-eric
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