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Re: Altivec + 16 byte alignment
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:39:15 +0000
- Subject: Re: Altivec + 16 byte alignment
- References: <10302112039.AA20639@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner wrote:-
> It's just a function call, exposed to the front end. Nice and clean.
>
> In which case, why not do it totally in the back end? I don't see it as
> a big deal, but I'm not sure what you gain by adding a call to that function
> into every front end.
Better diagnostics, mainly.
Neil.