Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:26:03 -0500 (GMT+5)
From: Prakash Sastry <prakash AT mmsl DOT serc DOT iisc DOT ernet DOT in>
To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com
Subject: PIII help required(I am not in the mailing list)
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hello all,
i am being asked to do some PIII specific assembly programming on linux.
i have Linux(RH6.0,)kernel 2.2.10 on this machine. when ever i try to
compile the assembly code with xmm operations it gives me an invalid
operands. the information on /proc/cpuinfo shows the following

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 451.031072
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 3
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 pn mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips        : 448.92

the gcc version is :
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
 
any help how to solve the problem would help me a lot


thanking you
prakash sastry
multimedia system lab
prakash AT mmsl DOT serc DOT iisc DOT ernet DOT in