> On Apr 4, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Gary Zibrat via Groups.Io 
> <gzibrat=google....@groups.io> wrote:
> 
> It seems like the "-mno-mmx -msoft-float -mno-implicit-float" part of the 
> flags should be enough to handle that now.
> Is it ok to take -mno-sse out (in my local branch) for new versions of clang 
> without having to worry about silent failures?
> Since EFIAPI uses the windows ABI, it should be ok to use XMM registers for 
> integer operations.
> '

Gary,

Conceptually it should be OK. But obviously no one has tested it :). 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish


> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 1:00 PM Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com 
> <mailto:af...@apple.com>> wrote:
> Gary,
> 
> The edk2 is freestanding UEFI firmware and the runtime does not support 
> floating point exceptions. 
> 
> I think a long time ago there was an optimization bug and the -mno-sse fixed 
> it. 
> 
> The UEFI x64 ABI is Windows like and not Sys V like. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Fish
> 
>> On Apr 4, 2019, at 10:13 AM, Gary Zibrat via Groups.Io 
>> <gzibrat=google....@groups.io <mailto:gzibrat=google....@groups.io>> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know why -mno-sse is specified on Clang x64?
>> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/6f756db5ea057ff10dd168c7627163cec046a3d9
>>  
>> <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/6f756db5ea057ff10dd168c7627163cec046a3d9>
>> There doesn't seem to be a corresponding flag for other compilers.
>> 
>> I ask because a commit in LLVM breaks compilation of EDK2:
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/rL357317#change-QSW9B7DqCGUI 
>> <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL357317#change-QSW9B7DqCGUI>
> 
> 


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