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Re: PATCH: Altivec context-sensitive keywords
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: Andrew Pinski <Andrew_Pinski at playstation dot sony dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, janis187 <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:25:48 +1000
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Altivec context-sensitive keywords
- References: <1214478254.17407.15.camel@helios> <de8d50360806261613s15d0ea1en8b85526cb3ee9f2e@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:13 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> I would not call the macro __APPLE_ALTIVEC__, but instead
> __CONTEX_SENSITIVE_VMX__ (or ALTIVEC for that matter).
I didn't choose the name of that macro; it has been mentioned in
<altivec.h> since 2004 (and should be considered a programmer-visible
interface that we should be reluctant to change). A Google search
suggests that at least some people have used it in existing source code.
Ben