[LLVMdev] [codegen] how to generate x87 instructions using LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Simon Zhou wrote:

> Hi All
>
>   I am a greenhand for LLVM.
>
>   I find the LLVM generate SSE instrctions for floating pointing  
> computation, is there some method or options to let it generate x87  
> instructions?

Are you using the low level llvm tools like 'llc'?  If so, pass - 
mattr=-sse to disable SSE codegen, for example:

llc ~/fp.bc -o - -mattr=-sse

-Chris