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Re: altivec instruction support?
- To: Fred Bacon <bacon at bacon dot ne dot mediaone dot net>
- Subject: Re: altivec instruction support?
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:03:53 -0400
- Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
>>>>> Fred Bacon writes:
Fred> Does anyone know if egcs support for the powerpc altivec instruction set
Fred> is being worked on somewhere? I've been searching back through the egcs
Fred> mailing list archives, but I haven't found a mention of it.
What support are you expecting in GCC? Support in binutils, yes,
but it is rather hard for GCC to take advantage of the instructions. It
is more something that you want to call via subroutines or inlined
assembly.
David