Re: instructions for Athlon

[Dieter Nützel <dieter dot nuetzel at myokay dot net>]

Alan Modra wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, H . J . Lu wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:54:58PM +0200, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> > > Hello H.J.,
> > >
> > > do you know if there is support for the "latest" AMD Athlon (mmxext mmx
> > > 3dnowext 3dnow) instructions available (as, etc.)?
> > >
> > > Yep, prefetch, prefetchnta, etc. works but NOT "movqnta" (not cache
> > > trashing).
>
> Presumably, you mean "movntq" (0Fh E7h).  That has been supported by gas
> for quite a while.
>
> Alan Modra

You are right Alan!

Found that in the official AMD documentation, too. It was a communication
problem. I received the hint for playing with 'movntq' on the Athlon from a
friend. He named it 'movqnta' which is obviously wrong...

So I've checked it yesterday, again.

Now, I've did a string search over as

SunWave1>as -v
GNU assembler version 2.9.5 (i686-pc-linux) using BFD version 2.9.5.0.46

All 'new' Athlon/Duron instructions are supported!

Thank you very much and my apologies for wasting your time.

-Dieter

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