As observed using GCC 10 using -march=native -ftree-vectorize
on Knights Landing, it is now smart enough to find clobbers inside
non-inlined static functions.
In particular, sgemv counted on a kernel to preserve the whole
%ymm2 register (since it was not in the clobber list), but the top
part was destroyed by vzeroupper. This caused many tests to fail.
This patch makes sure all xmm (and ymm/zmm by extension) registers
are listed as clobbered to avoid this happening, as most kernels
already did correctly in fact.
The OSX assembler apparently mishandles the argument to decimal .align, leading to a significant loss of performance
as observed in #730, #901 and most recently #1470
Bart Oldeman
Martin Kroeker
Werner Saar