Re: SSE register return with SSE disabled on AMD64

From: Ryan Stone <rysto32_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:44:08 -0400
You must not use SSE or floating point operations in the kernel.  The
state of the floating point and SSE registers is *not* saved upon
entry to the kernel.  If the kernel executes SSE or floating point
instructions it will corrupt the state of a userland program.

Ryan Stone
Received on Sat Sep 19 2009 - 23:44:10 UTC

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