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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/x86: Fix up rules when forcing -mno-sse



On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Andrew Cooper
<andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/08/15 17:03, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> On 12.08.15 at 17:23, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> From: Nathan Rossi <nathan.rossi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> * When forcing -mno-sse specify -mfpmath=387 to avoid the fallback
>>>>   warning
>>> "the fallback warning" being what? I've never seen any, and I don't
>>> think I've ever heard anyone else say there was one.
>>>
>>> Apart from that I don't think -mfpmath=387 is what we want - we'd
>>> better tell the compiler to not use x87 registers at all.
>
> Agreed.
>
> However, a git grep shows:
>
> crypto/vmac.c:1098:    double cpb;
> crypto/vmac.c:1158:
> ((double)CLOCKS_PER_SEC*speed_lengths[i]*speed_iters[i]));
>
> which I suspect might need fixing.
>

Looks like that only comes in when VMAC_RUN_TESTS is defined. That code
is inside a main().

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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