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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:32:32 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Damian McGuckin <damianm@....com.au>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Considering x86-64 fenv.s to C
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Rich Felker wrote:
> Note that this approach is not compatible with trapping exceptions, but
> we don't support them anyway.
When an FNSTENV instruction is executed, all pending exceptions are
essentially lost (either the x87 FPU status register is cleared or all
exceptions are masked).
I think that this means either it wipes the exception bits in the status
register or it wipes out the bits of the control register which handle
which exceptions are trapped.
Am I wrong.
Because MUSL does not support trapping exceptions, we do not need to
restore the control word.
But do we need to copy the lost exceptions flags in the x87 register
back into the SSE register, well at least where we have an SSE.
Mind you, on an i386 without an SSE, you cannot restore them!
Regards - Damian
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