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Re: Add V4DFmode support to C
- From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- To: Geoffrey Keating <gkeating at apple dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 22 Jul 2003 19:16:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: Add V4DFmode support to C
- References: <200307150543.h6F5hgmZ002755@keatge.apple.com>
>>>>> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Keating <gkeating@apple.com> writes:
> On Altivec, you can have 'vector float'. Sometimes it's really useful
> to have 'vector double' too, no matter how slow it might go.
> Bootstrapped & tested on powerpc-darwin. The actual new functionality
> is very lightly tested and is certainly incomplete, but you can at
> least do 'x = a + b'.
Could you add a simple testcase? Now that we have generic simd
support, it should (in theory) work on all platforms.
Aldy