A historical question: Is instruction 'movaps' supported on Intel Pentium III CPUs?

Sergey Kostrov

Di, 21/02/2012 - 07:07

Hi everybody,

A historical question: Is instruction 'movaps' supported on Intel Pentium III CPUs?

Here is an example of how 'movaps' is usually used:

sqrtps xmm0, xmm0
movaps xmmword ptr [ some address ], xmm0

Best regards,
Sergey

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Mark Charney (Intel)

Di, 21/02/2012 - 08:08

Best Reply

Yes, movaps is present on Pentium III CPUs.

Sergey Kostrov

Di, 21/02/2012 - 17:32

Hi Mark,

Thank you! And almostthe same question:Is instruction 'movaps' supported on IntelPentium II CPUs?

Best regards,
Sergey

TimP (Intel)

Mi, 22/02/2012 - 00:58

Thank you! And almostthe same question:Is instruction 'movaps' supported on IntelPentium II CPUs?

No.

Sergey Kostrov

Mi, 22/02/2012 - 07:04

Thanks, Tim. This is exactly what I wanted to know.

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