D-1
APPENDIX D
SIMD FLOATING-POINT EXCEPTIONS SUMMARY
Table D-1 lists the Streaming SIMD Extensions mnemonics in alphabetical order. For each
mnemonic, it summarizes the exceptions that the instruction may cause. Refer to Section 9.5.5.,
“Exception Handling in Streaming SIMD Extensions” in Chapter 9, Programming with the
Streaming SIMD Extensions for a detailed discussion of the various exceptions that can occur
when executing Streaming SIMD Extensions.
The following codes indicate the exceptions associated with execution of an instruction that uti-
lizes the 128-bit Streaming SIMD Extensions registers.
#I
Invalid operation exception for invalid arithmetic operands and
unsupported formats.
#D
Denormal operand exception.
#Z
Divide-by-zero exception.
#
O
Numeric overflow exception.
#U
Numeric underflow exception.
#P
Inexact result (precision) exception.
