On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:09:57 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/10/15 18:16, Pascal Stumpf wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:18:21 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > The gcc 4.9 port supports -msse4.2, but our assembler doesn't > > > support (at least some of the) opcodes that it uses. > > > > > > : Assembler messages: > > > :132: Error: no such instruction: `pcmpistri $2,(%rdi),%xmm2' > > > :172: Error: no such instruction: `pcmpistri $2,%xmm3,%xmm1' > > > :175: Error: no such instruction: `pcmpistri $58,%xmm3,%xmm3' > > > > > > Would it make sense to disable the option in the compiler for now? > > > > > > > > > > Not sure what that would achieve. Rejecting the flag would just move > > the error from as to egcc. Any port using it would have to patch out > > the option anyway (or use clang). > > > > The port where I ran into this has an autoconf check to see whether > the compiler accepts the flag. Since it's still a fairly new flag, > I assume that anything else trying to use it would do the same. > >
Then I'd argue the autoconf check is broken. It should be trying to compile an actual code snippet with SSE4.2 instructions (while taking care that the compiler does not optimise away the inline asm). Since, as you said, the flag is quite new, it is absolutely necessary to test both compiler and binutils support.
