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Re: PATCH: __nodebug__ attribute for use on SSE intrinsic wrappers
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 14:54 -0700, Stuart Hastings wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> If you think that "vec_add()" is the issue, you're right. However,
> >> the folks that use these intrinsics don't think that way, and it's a
> >> bit arrogant for GCC to force the issue as it does. Our users
> >> opinions should count for something...
> >>
> >
> > If we followed every bad implementation idea choice someone else ever
> > made, we'd be in serious trouble.
>
> We're already in trouble, due to our /own/ implementation choice.
Which, btw, is the same implementation choice taken by, for example,
Intel, who invented these things.
--Dan