privileged instruction in 32-bit code

[Marcus Meissner]

> (gdb) disassemble bar
> Dump of assembler code for function bar:
> 0x080495a0 <bar+0>:     movaps %xmm0,(%ecx)
> 0x080495a3 <bar+3>:     shufps $0xa,%xmm3,%xmm2
> 0x080495a7 <bar+7>:     add    $0x90,%eax
> 0x080495ac <bar+12>:    decl   0x4c(%esp)
> 0x080495b0 <bar+16>:    movaps %xmm1,0x10(%ecx)
> 0x080495b4 <bar+20>:    shufps $0x9d,%xmm3,%xmm2
> 0x080495b8 <bar+24>:    mov    %edi,0x88(%esp)
> 0x080495bf <bar+31>:    mov    0x64(%esp),%edi
> 0x080495c3 <bar+35>:    movaps %xmm2,0x20(%ecx)
> 0x080495c7 <bar+39>:    jne    0x80491b6
> 
> I'm now fairly sure it's failing on the first movaps command.  Unless 
> someone can direct me differently, I'm going to start looking at why 
> that command is showing up as 'privileged'.

Does your machine support SSE2 instructions? I guess this is the problem.

Ciao, Marcus