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SSE and SSE2 intrinsics
- From: "Tom Womack" <tom at womack dot net>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:44:20 -0000
- Subject: SSE and SSE2 intrinsics
I'm having a bit of trouble working out how to get gcc-3.1 to compile code
written using Intel's intrinsics. I'm using the snapshot of 2001-12-31,
built under SuSE7.3, with the current release version of binutils;
compiling -msse2 -march=pentium4 does work, does produce SSE2 instructions,
and sadly produces (for every test case I've tried) executables which are
15% or so slower than compiling without any -m directives.
I worked out I should do typedef int __m128i ((attribute V4SI)) to get the
right type, but I couldn't find in the documentation any indication of what
I should use in gcc where I'd use _mm_cmpgt_epi8 in VC++; indeed, even
looking through i386.md I couldn't find an instruction-definition for the
SSE2 extended-MMX compare instructions.
I was somehow expecting a file that I could #include to get Intel intrinsics
recognised, but I couldn't find one even by grepping through the source
tree. If you tell me what pattern I should be following, writing such a file
should be grunt-work given the MSVC help file listing what the intrinsics
are supposed to do, and I'd be prepared to do that for the sake of getting
SSE2 working nicely when I'm under Linux.
Tom