Re: Uses of SSE registers?

I tried in my program to use one SSE register to store a C global 
variable (gcc has support for this). But the value from that register 
variable was not as intended sometimes. I am trying to figure out the 
reason, and one of my guesses is that the GC uses those registers. I 
will try use -mno-sse for building the GC and see what happens then.

Thanks very much.

Regards,
Yi

On 17/10/2013 4:12 PM, Bruce Hoult wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I don't *think* there is anything explicitly 
> about SSE in the GC, except for adjusting the exception mask when 
> pushing callee-save registers.
>
> It could well be that your build flags are such that your compiler 
> uses SSE instructions for some things written in C.
>
> I'm also not entirely sure why you believe that you'd want or need to 
> prevent the GC from using SSE?
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Yi Lin <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     It seems the GC uses SSE registers. If I want to use those
>     registers in my program, is there a way to turn it off for the GC?
>     Thanks very much.
>
>     Regards,
>     Yi
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