[LLVMdev] floating point exception and SSE2 instructions

Simon Burton simon at arrowtheory.com
Wed Apr 19 11:28:34 PDT 2006


On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:27:39 -0700
Evan Cheng <evan.cheng at apple.com> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> 
> The x86 backend does generate scalar SSE2 instructions. For your  
> example, it should emit something like:

Oh, how did you get this ?

[...]

> 
> There is nothing here that should cause an exception. Are you using a  
> release or cvs?

CVS.

>From what I remember, this is a bug in debian libc:
some floating point flags are set incorrectly causing SIGFPE.
Can't find the bug report ATM.

Thanks,

Simon.



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