Re: [Bug preprocessor/37550] New: Please document predefined sub-architecture support macros

[Andrew Thomas Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>]

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On Sep 16, 2008, at 7:35 PM, "martinrb at google dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org 
> wrote:

> The preprocessor symbol __MMX__ indicates whether this gcc
> includes mmx support.  This is extremely useful, but undocumented.
> I only found out by finding the symbol in other peoples' code.

Some targets actually define this based some specifications of the  
target. Spu and -mcpu=cell on powerpc define __SPU__/__PPU__ as  
specified by the C/C++ language extension for the cbea document. I bet  
x86 has this specified in their documentation rather than in GCC's  
documentation.

> The particular symbol __MMX__ should be documented in
> the obvious place, namely where the -mmmx flag is documented
> in the x86-specific page.
>
> And of course, similarly for other such predefined flags.
> I assume there's one for sse, but I haven't actually tried to find  
> out.
>
> Here's a shell transcript, again compiling my favorite
> source file, /dev/null:
>
> (martinrb@spraggett) ~ $ gcc -mmmx -E -dD -x c /dev/null | sort > / 
> tmp/t1
> (martinrb@spraggett) ~ $ gcc -mno-mmx -E -dD -x c /dev/null | sort  
> > /tmp/t2
> (martinrb@spraggett) ~ $ diff /tmp/t[12]
> 92d91
> < #define __MMX__ 1
>
>
> --
>           Summary: Please document predefined sub-architecture support
>                    macros
>           Product: gcc
>           Version: 4.2.3
>            Status: UNCONFIRMED
>          Severity: normal
>          Priority: P3
>         Component: preprocessor
>        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
>        ReportedBy: martinrb at google dot com
>  GCC host triplet: x86_64-linux-gnu
>
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37550