Re: Baby's First AldyVec/AltiVec patch

[Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>]

On Dec 22, 2003, at 6:40 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > There were objections to the the way the patch was engineered, most
> > notably the modifications needed in the C and C++ yacc grammars (and
> > the difficulty in making them target-dependent).  But I do not recall 
> > a
> > principled rejection of allowing FSF gcc to support the Apple/Motorola
> > AltiVec syntax.
>
> I do not have a thread, but I am certain that we consciously rejected
> the use of the parenthesized form in favor of the C99-style brace form.

Thread starts here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-07/msg00992.html

It looks like no patch was ever submitted, at least partly because of
copyright issues.  However, reading the thread certainly gives the 
impression
that a patch following Motorola syntax would be rejected.