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[Bug gas/25550] Review .arch directives
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[Bug gas/25550] Review .arch directives |
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Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:08:53 +0000 |
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25550
--- Comment #5 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse dot com> ---
(In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #4)
> (In reply to Jan Beulich from comment #3)
> > (In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #2)
> > > Is SSE2 a prerequisite for AVX?
> >
> > This can be viewed either way, I guess. The history of the ISA extensions
> > suggests it is. But functionally nothing except the XMM registers have any
> > overlap, I think.
>
> Why is AVX a prerequisite for AVX512?
The correlation is largely the same as the one between SSE* and AVX.
> > > For view point of assembly codes, enable MMX register without MMX ISA
> > > makes no sense. For example, emms is needed for proper MMX usage.
> >
> > Not necessarily, one can certainly get away without (using 4 FFREEP in a
> > row).
>
> What purpose does it serve?
Well, I don't expect anyone would actively want to use it this way.
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