Confirmed.

Note the "SIMD Math Library Specification for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture" defines an interface for a SIMD math library for VMX (and Cell SPU).

*** Bug 36099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

There's been no activity on this bug in almost eight years.  Is this still a desirable enhancement today (or are there better alternatives), and is there any likelihood that it will be implemented?  (I don't have an opinion, just trying to clear out some old inactive bugs.)

This is still of interest.

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, msebor at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:

> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22226
> 
> Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Status|NEW                         |WAITING
>                  CC|                            |msebor at gcc dot gnu.org
> 
> --- Comment #4 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
> There's been no activity on this bug in almost eight years.  Is this still a
> desirable enhancement today (or are there better alternatives), and is there
> any likelihood that it will be implemented?  (I don't have an opinion, just
> trying to clear out some old inactive bugs.)

GLIBC is in the process of getting such library - that doesn't help
non-glibc targets of course.  Plumbing to GLIBC is also not yet
implemented.

(In reply to rguenther@suse.de from comment #6)
> GLIBC is in the process of getting such library - that doesn't help
> non-glibc targets of course.  Plumbing to GLIBC is also not yet
> implemented.

Available since GLIBC 2.23: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec