On 2017/4/24 14:29, Marc Glisse wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, Liu Hao wrote:
Today I accidentally found the built-in function
`__builtin_ia32_rdtscp()` on GCC6, but there is no documentation about
it on <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/x86-Built-in-Functions.html>.
Is this an oversight?
I don't know if it is an oversight, but I think documenting the builtins
is a bad idea, you are supposed to use the intrinsics instead, in this
case __rdtscp, which is documented by Intel (and Microsoft).
Yes. This function is not so important for me and I am just a bit curious.
FWIW, I really love using the function `__builtin_pause()`. As you have
pointed out I should have been using `_mm_pause()` instead, but it
requires `#include "emmintrin.h"` according to Intel's documentation and
the `-msse2` command line option when targeting x86. The function
`__builtin_pause()` works perfectly there. And even if (in the rare
case) the `PAUSE` instruction isn't recognized by the CPU, it is a valid
encoding of `REP NOP` thus will not trigger an illegal instruction
exception nevertheless.
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Best regards,
LH_Mouse
