Re: [Mingw-users] An error regarding AMD-XOP and emmintrin.h?

[Gisle V. <gv...@br...>]

"Andrew Somorjai" <ver...@ya...> wrote:

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I'm using GCC-TDM 4.7.1-2 and I tried to compile the following code using GCC with the compiler flags -msse3 -msse4 -mxop but there
seems to be a problem only
if the header x86intrin.h is included.


If I run the code through GDB I get a seg fault in emmintrin.h on line 603 where it says:

return __extension__ (__m128i)(__v16qi){

If I comment out x86intrin.h I can run the program with the line


__m128i HADDQinput = _mm_set_epi8(4, 3, 2, 1, 8, 7, 5, 3, 7, 6, 5, 4, 9, 0, 3, 3); //line 14


no trouble. Its only when x86intrin.h is compiled with the source below a crash occurs.



#include <emmintrin.h>
#include <x86intrin.h>//code compiles and runs fine without this header but otherwise causes a seg fault in emmintrin.h line 603
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

void print_2_64_bit_ints(const char * label, __m128i m64_r)
{
int *val = (int *) &m64_r;
printf("%s: %d %d\n",
label, val[0], val[1]);
}
int main()
{
__m128i HADDQinput = _mm_set_epi8(4, 3, 2, 1, 8, 7, 5, 3, 7, 6, 5, 4, 9, 0, 3, 3);//line 14
//__m128i RESULT = _mm_haddq_epi8(HADDQinput);
//_mm_empty();

//print_2_64_bit_ints("Result ", RESULT);

return 0;
}

thanks,

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I tried your program here. WinDbg says:

  (14f8.1524): Illegal instruction - code c000001d
  ...
  mmx_gcc+0x1454:
  00401454 c5f96e44243c    vmovd   xmm0,dword ptr [esp+3Ch] ss:0023:0022fefc=00000003


I believe 'vmovd xmm0..' is an Intel AVX instruction. Running this on a CPU w/o AVX
would off-course trigger an 'illegal instruction'.

Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

--gv