https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68211
--- Comment #6 from Marc Glisse <glisse at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #4) > If the upper bits of the register can contain arbitrary garbage, then > keeping it there might result in e.g. floating point exceptions being raised > (it could be even a sNAN). Of course a different thing is if we can prove > what is in those upper bits and be sure it doesn't do any harm, or if the > operations on it later on are masked. For double f(double x){return __builtin_sqrt(x);} we generate vsqrtsd %xmm0, %xmm0, %xmm0 with -O -fno-math-errno. I don't see what makes the rounded version different from the non-rounded version.