On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 9:07 AM Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > > * H. J. Lu: > > > 1. MMX maskmovq and SSE2 maskmovdqu aren't equivalent. We emulate MMX > > maskmovq with SSE2 maskmovdqu by zeroing out the upper 64 bits of the > > mask operand. A warning is issued since invalid memory access may > > happen when bits 64:127 at memory location are unmapped: > > > > xmmintrin.h:1168:3: note: Emulate MMX maskmovq with SSE2 maskmovdqu may > > result i > > n invalid memory access > > 1168 | __builtin_ia32_maskmovq ((__v8qi)__A, (__v8qi)__N, __P); > > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Would it be possible to shift the mask according to the misalignment in > the address? I think this should allow avoiding crossing a page > boundary if the orginal 64-bit load would not.
I guess it is possible. But it may be quite a bit complex for for no apparent gains since we also need to shift the implicit memory address. -- H.J.
