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Re: [PATCH] Stage 2 projects - AltiVec rewrite
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:49:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stage 2 projects - AltiVec rewrite
- References: <42709B67.8020603@lu.unisi.ch>
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:14:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The project reimplements the AltiVec vector primitives in a saner way,
> without putting the burden on the preprocessor and instead processing
> the "overloading" in the C front-end. There is still a big table of
> overloading possibilities, but it is in the compiler and not in a
> user-visible header file.
The patch doesn't apply cleanly (it needs an empty line before
"Index: gcc/target-def.h") and doesn't compile due to conflicting
definitions of altivec_build_resolved_builtin in rs6000-c.c. I'll
keep trying to get a clean bootstrap and testsuite run on
powerpc64-linux and let you know how it goes.
Janis