[cfe-commits] r166743 - in /cfe/trunk: lib/Headers/xmmintrin.h test/CodeGen/sse-builtins.c

[manman ren]

On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Manman Ren <mren at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Oct 25, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Manman Ren <mren at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Manman Ren <mren at apple.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Author: mren
>>>>>> Date: Thu Oct 25 19:25:10 2012
>>>>>> New Revision: 166743
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=166743&view=rev
>>>>>> Log:
>>>>>> X86 SSE Intrinsics: update header for sqrt_ss, rsqrt_ss and rcp_ss.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There intrinsics pass through the upper FP values from the input.
>>>>>> rdar://12558838
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Modified:
>>>>>> cfe/trunk/lib/Headers/xmmintrin.h
>>>>>> cfe/trunk/test/CodeGen/sse-builtins.c
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Modified: cfe/trunk/lib/Headers/xmmintrin.h
>>>>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/lib/Headers/xmmintrin.h?rev=166743&r1=166742&r2=166743&view=diff
>>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>>> --- cfe/trunk/lib/Headers/xmmintrin.h (original)
>>>>>> +++ cfe/trunk/lib/Headers/xmmintrin.h Thu Oct 25 19:25:10 2012
>>>>>> @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@
>>>>>> static __inline__ __m128 __attribute__((__always_inline__, __nodebug__))
>>>>>> _mm_sqrt_ss(__m128 a)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> -  return __builtin_ia32_sqrtss(a);
>>>>>> +  __m128 c = __builtin_ia32_sqrtss(a);
>>>>>> +  return (__m128) { c[0], a[1], a[2], a[3] };
>>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> What does exactly does __builtin_ia32_sqrtss return, if not the result
>>>>> of a sqrtss instruction?
>>>> builtin returns the result of sqrtss instruction, which only updates the lowest FP. mm_sqrt_ss has the upper FPs pass through to the output.
>>> 
>>> What exactly is in the top 96 bits of the return value of
>>> __builtin_ia32_sqrtss, then?
>> Those bits are undefined with the current implementation, same goes for sqrt_sd.
> 
> Why are the intrinsics defined to take vectors in the first place, then?
Not sure why the builtins for sqrtss, rsqrtss, rcpss and sqrtsd take vectors.
Their top bits are undefined since they directly map to the corresponding instructions which have the top bits from the un-initialized destination registers.

Thanks,
Manman
> 
> -Eli