Re: _fpstate_fxsave & al

From: Gareth Hughes (gareth@precisioninsight.com)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 16:51:30 EST


TimO wrote:
>
> Because they are eXtensions to the Floating Point unit and MultiMedia is
> just
> a buzz-word??? I know if I were browsing the sources and came across ?MM?,
> I
> would tend to equate it more with Memory Management. 'Course; after
> wondering
> what the heck memory management has to do with a math-co; I'd go back and
> read closer to figger it out. Maybe MMXFP--MultiMedia eXtensions to the
> Floating Point unit..... $.02E-7

No, I was being sarcastic. The registers are XMM0-XMM7, the CPUID bit
is XMM etc etc etc. That's what the manuals call it, and it would be
nice to have everything the same.

-- Gareth

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