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Re: A bit of vector extension documentation
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: A bit of vector extension documentation
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:33:18 -0700
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109271622590.737-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109271556440.27756-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:06:25PM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> However, I'm still doubtful about exposing a lowlevel interface like
> __attribute__((mode)).
Why not? We have exposed that interface for quite some time.
It is used in several packages to get a known 32-bit or 64-bit
quantity (yes, I know those packages assume 8-bit chars).
That aside, is it really any better to expose mode(V4SI) as
a typedef named "v4si"?
r~