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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86_64/fpu_control.h19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/fpu_control.h b/sysdeps/x86_64/fpu_control.h
index 61bc30e973..605302c09b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86_64/fpu_control.h
+++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/fpu_control.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-/* FPU control word bits. x86-64 version.
- Copyright (C) 1993,1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* FPU control word bits. x86 version.
+ Copyright (C) 1993-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Olaf Flebbe.
@@ -90,9 +90,18 @@
/* Type of the control word. */
typedef unsigned int fpu_control_t __attribute__ ((__mode__ (__HI__)));
-/* Macros for accessing the hardware control word. */
-#define _FPU_GETCW(cw) __asm__ ("fnstcw %0" : "=m" (*&cw))
-#define _FPU_SETCW(cw) __asm__ ("fldcw %0" : : "m" (*&cw))
+/* Macros for accessing the hardware control word. "*&" is used to
+ work around a bug in older versions of GCC. __volatile__ is used
+ to support combination of writing the control register and reading
+ it back. Without __volatile__, the old value may be used for reading
+ back under compiler optimization.
+
+ Note that the use of these macros is not sufficient anymore with
+ recent hardware nor on x86-64. Some floating point operations are
+ executed in the SSE/SSE2 engines which have their own control and
+ status register. */
+#define _FPU_GETCW(cw) __asm__ __volatile__ ("fnstcw %0" : "=m" (*&cw))
+#define _FPU_SETCW(cw) __asm__ __volatile__ ("fldcw %0" : : "m" (*&cw))
/* Default control word set at startup. */
extern fpu_control_t __fpu_control;