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Re: MMX documentation

To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: MMX documentation
From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:01:38 -0700
CC: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109291719530.4373-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.com>

Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> 
> The documentation for the builtins is somewhat brief; if someone wants to
> program with these extensions they probably need to have an instruction set
> reference manual anyway so I thought it pointless (and too much work :-) to
> document precisely what all the instructions do.

Yeah, when the hundreds of AltiVec instructions get added, the manual
will be getting kind of fat.  How about documenting groups of similar
instructions as __builtin_ia32_@var{name}, then just including a
bare listing of the accepted names?

> + @table @code
> + @item int __buitlin_ia32_comieq (v4sf, v4sf)

Probably want "builtin" rather than "buitlin". :-)

Stan

References:
- MMX documentation
  - From: Bernd Schmidt

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