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Re: [PATCH] MIPS32 DSP intrinsics


On Wednesday 01 June 2005 16:51, Nigel Stephens wrote:
> Eric Christopher wrote:
> >>I'm not against adding these new
> >>instructions to the GNU simulator, it's
> >>just that this may not be possible until the new architecture documents
> >>have been made publicly available.
> >
> >I don't want to add the instructions to gcc until the architecture
> >documents are publicly available.
>
> I understand your concerns, but is this standard policy for GCC? We're
> trying to get ahead here, and make sure that when our new CPU is
> launched we have support for it in place within GCC and Binutils. We're
> not talking about a long delay before publication - on the order of two
> months.

Apart from anything else we require that all intrinsics be documented. How do 
you propose to do this if the architecture details are not publicly 
available?

Paul


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