Re: i5 and invalid instructions

[Jaap Boender <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost>]

On Tuesday 13 Nov 2012 15:52:25 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> This is wrong. SSE is *required* on AMD64 and used for float and double
> arithmethic.

Hm, yes, the manpage does say that SSE and SSE2 are enabled by default, as 
well as SSE for floating point arithmetic; however, when I run gcc -Q --
help=target, it says that sse and sse2 are disabled. Strange.

  Jaap
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