https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67552
--- Comment #4 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> --- MMX instructions should be disallowed in interrupt handler: [hjl@gnu-6 interrupt-1]$ cat m.i typedef short __v4hi __attribute__ ((__vector_size__ (8))); typedef int __m64 __attribute__ ((__vector_size__ (8), __may_alias__)); extern __m64 y, x; void __attribute__((interrupt)) fn1 (void) { x = (__m64) __builtin_ia32_packsswb ((__v4hi) x, (__v4hi) y); } [hjl@gnu-6 interrupt-1]$ make m.s /export/build/gnu/gcc-5/build-x86_64-linux/gcc/xgcc -B/export/build/gnu/gcc-5/build-x86_64-linux/gcc/ -O2 -S -o m.s m.i [hjl@gnu-6 interrupt-1]$ cat m.s .file "m.i" .section .text.unlikely,"ax",@progbits .LCOLDB0: .text .LHOTB0: .p2align 4,,15 .globl fn1 .type fn1, @function fn1: .LFB0: .cfi_startproc movq x(%rip), %mm0 addq $-128, %rsp packsswb y(%rip), %mm0 movq %mm0, x(%rip) ret .cfi_endproc .LFE0: .size fn1, .-fn1 .section .text.unlikely .LCOLDE0: .text .LHOTE0: .ident "GCC: (GNU) 5.2.1 20150911" .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits [hjl@gnu-6 interrupt-1]$