Re: i5 and invalid instructions

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:11:11PM +0000, Jaap Boender wrote:
> > I have stopped using cpuflags on amd64, I would expect that the native
> > amd64 compiler would use SSE for FP by default but have not checked.
> 
> It doesn't, SSE is disabled by default (in general, not only for FP) on amd64.

This is wrong. SSE is *required* on AMD64 and used for float and double
arithmethic.

Joerg