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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