https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80833

--- Comment #12 from Uroš Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Peter Cordes from comment #4)
> MMX is also a saving in code-size: one fewer prefix byte vs. SSE2 integer
> instructions.  It's also another set of 8 registers for 32-bit mode.

After touching a MMX register, the compiler needs to emit emms insn, so MMX
moves are practically unusable as generic moves.

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