Intel® C++ Compiler Classic Developer Guide and Reference

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Date 7/13/2023
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Intrinsics to Read and Write Registers

The prototypes for Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE) intrinsics to read from and write to registers are in the xmmintrin.h header file.

To use these intrinsics, include the immintrin.h file as follows:

#include <immintrin.h>

Intrinsic Name

Operation

Corresponding
Intel® SSE Instruction

_mm_getcsr

Return control register

STMXCSR

_mm_setcsr

Set control register

LDMXCSR

_mm_getcsr

unsigned int _mm_getcsr(void);

Returns the contents of the control register.

_mm_setcsr

void _mm_setcsr(unsigned int i);

Sets the control register to the value specified by i.