and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation. As a predicate operand, the opmask register. Just as for x87 FPU floating-point exceptions, the processor takes one of two possible courses of action when an SSE/SSE2/SSE3 instruction raises a floating-point exception: URGENT MESSAGE FROM THE DIGITAL GOD WHO SITS IN THE DARK!