[PATCH][BZ #15627] Disable SSE for rtld-* objects (tst-xmmymm failure)

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
Fri Jun 14 17:47:00 GMT 2013


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:13:39AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> Would it be better to add rtld-memset.S:
> 
>     mov    %rdx, %rcx
>     movzbl    %sil, %eax
>     mov    %rdi, %rdx
>     rep stosb
>     mov %rdx, %rax
>     ret
> 

The concern I have is that we would go down the path of reimplementing
every function that xmmymm.sh points out in future.  However, the
performance improvement here probably makes it worthwhile.  I'll write
this up.

Thanks,
Siddhesh



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