[cfe-dev] should -mno-sse -mno-mmx -msse -mmmx work?

[Evan Cheng]

<rdar://problem/9694837> SSE register return with SSE disabled

Evan

On Jul 1, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Andrew Fish wrote:

> We are using clang for EFI firmware and in general it is a lot like a kernel and we turn off floating point. So the default build flags for our project set -mno-sse -mno-mmx. I'm trying to compile a standard C library that has a few functions with double in it, so I tried to reenable the floating point on the command line for just that package. I thought if you had -mno* and -m the last one wins?  It does not seem to work?
> 
> ~/work/Compiler>cat float.c
> double 
> ErrorInBackEnd ()
> {
>  return 1.0;
> }
> ~/work/Compiler>clang -mno-sse -mno-mmx -msse -mmmx float.c
> fatal error: error in backend: SSE2 register return with SSE2 disabled
> 
> Is this a bug? Or functioning as intended
> 
> Andrew Fish
> 
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