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Re: Vector Extensions in GCC
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: Vector Extensions in GCC
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:15:03 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Stan Shebs wrote:
> At least going by the description, this is not a "future changes"
> assignment, so it would cover only things that they had done up to
> that point, which wouldn't include AltiVec work. (Companies are
> often reluctant to sign future changes assignments, their lawyers
> worry about giving away IP before it's even been written.)
Yes, the point is that having previously assigned some other changes, one
might have thought them willing to do another assignment for the AltiVec
changes.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk