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[PATCH][wwwdocs] Document power7/vsx support
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:06:25 -0400
- Subject: [PATCH][wwwdocs] Document power7/vsx support
I committed the following patch to document the power7/VSX changes that I
checked in last week.
--- htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html.~1.23.~ 2009-08-03 18:52:28.000000000 -0400
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html 2009-08-03 19:04:05.000000000 -0400
@@ -227,6 +227,17 @@ mep-elf) embedded target.</p>
<h3 id="picochip">picochip</h3>
+<h3 id="rs6000">RS/6000 (POWER/PowerPC)</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>GCC now supports the Power ISA 2.06, which includes the VSX
+ instructions that add vector 64-bit floating point support, new population
+ count instructions, and conversions between floating point and unsigned types.
+ <li>Support for the power7 processor is now available through the
+ <code>-mcpu=power7</code> and <code>-mtune=power7</code>.
+ <li>GCC will now vectorize loops that contain simple math functions like copysign
+ when generating code for altivec or VSX targets.
+ </ul>
+
<h2>Documentation improvements</h2>
<h2>Other significant improvements</h2>
--
Michael Meissner, IBM
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