kernel message while running icc-em64t

[peter at wemm.org (Peter Wemm)]

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 04:08 am, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> >> helen# icc -V ; dmesg | tail -2
> >> Intel(R) C Compiler for Intel(R) EM64T-based applications, Version
> >> 8.1   Build20041123 Package ID: l_cce_pc_8.1.024
> >> Copyright (C) 1985-2004 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >> FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
> >>
> >> iccbin: Command line error: no files specified; for help type
> >> "iccbin -help"
> >> fpudna: fpcurthread == curthread 2341 times
> >> fpudna: fpcurthread == curthread 2342 times
> >> helen# icc -V ; dmesg | tail -2
> >> Intel(R) C Compiler for Intel(R) EM64T-based applications, Version
> >> 8.1   Build20041123 Package ID: l_cce_pc_8.1.024
> >> Copyright (C) 1985-2004 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >> FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
> >>
> >> iccbin: Command line error: no files specified; for help type
> >> "iccbin -help"
> >> fpudna: fpcurthread == curthread 2342 times
> >> fpudna: fpcurthread == curthread 2343 times
> >>
> >> icpc triggers the same.
> >
> > That's a message from the kernel. amd64@ CCed for this purpose.
>
> To clarify what's this:
> Alexander sent me a icc-em64t port, which should make Intel's C
> compiler work on FreeBSD/AMD64 to produce EM64T (AMD64) code. It is
> based on the EM64T version of the compiler, which is in fact a 32 bit
> Linux binary.
>
> When I invoke icc, or icpc (the C++ compiler) I get the above kernel
> messages.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that it is trying to issue SSE3 
instructions to see if they work..
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