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Re: RFAdvice - a couple of old lost Altivec patches


>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

 > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:39:34PM -0700, Dale Johannesen wrote:
 >> >This is a clearly desirable feature; the
 >> >difficulty is, the routine is written to the old layout of
 >> >CONST_VECTOR.  I'm having trouble figuring out how to update it for
 >> >the new one.  Anyone have suggestions?
 >> 
 >> I can do better than that, we have it working.  Unfortunately this patch
 >> came originally from Motorola (according to my archive search here) and
 >> is therefore off limits for FSF, last I heard.

 > I thought the copyright issues with the Motorola code had been
 > resolved, but you may be more up on this than I am.  Disappointing.

Sigh, I'm a bit behind reading the gcc list...

Motorola has signed the copyright.  You should be able to take Apple's
code.

And yes, I saw the original easy_vector stuff.  I was just too lazy to
do it back then.  Actually, back then I hadn't written the
CONST_VECTOR stuff yet.

Aldy


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