On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:09:05PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 06:52:22PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > Module Name: src
> > Committed By: dsl
> > Date: Wed Feb 5 18:52:22 UTC 2014
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > src/sys/arch/amd64/conf: Makefile.amd64
> > src/sys/arch/i386/conf: Makefile.i386
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Change the compiler options to explicitly specify:
> > -mno-mmx -mno-sse -mno-avx -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387
> > Since no-sse implies no-sse2 that should ensure that the compiler really
> > doesn't emit any instructions that might trap trying to use the FPU.
> > On amd64 at least some of those are needed to stop the compiler
> > saving the registers to stack on every varargs function.
> > It might be that -mno-sse did that before.
>
> This breaks clang. Please do not depend on one SSE option disabling
> another.
Without those flags I believe gcc might generate x87 instructions.
Quite possibly even for amd64.
See a very recent linux fix.
Try searching for: Disable generation of traditional x87 instructions
David
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