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Re: Altivec: adjust prototypes for load builtins

From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:47:45 -0800
Subject: Re: Altivec: adjust prototypes for load builtins

--On Monday, November 25, 2002 02:48:04 PM -0800 Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:

This patch changes the prototypes for all the Altivec load-instruction
builtins so that pointer arguments are const-qualified.  In other
words, the notional prototype

v4si __builtin_altivec_lvx (int, void *);

becomes

v4si __builtin_altivec_lvx (int, const void *);

That seems eminently sensible.  Go for it, unless Geoff or David
jumps in to object.

--
Mark Mitchell                mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC            http://www.codesourcery.com

References:
- Altivec: adjust prototypes for load builtins
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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