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Re: audio problems with -current/GCC4?




On Jul 11, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

AFAIK, MMX and SSE have _nothing_ to do with floating point. It may be
true that these are _also_ unsafe in the kernel, for the same reasons
that floating point is unsafe (i.e. they aren't saved on context
switches) -- maybe someone familiar with the i386 port can verify?

Their registers overlap the FPU.  They are also unsafe to use.

-- thorpej




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