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Re: [PATCH] MIPS32 DSP intrinsics
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 06:05:26PM +0100, Nigel Stephens wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> >Apart from anything else we require that all intrinsics be documented.
>
> Sure, but the built-in intrinsics for ARM, PPC Altivec, x86 SSE, etc are
> documented only as a simple list of function names which imply that they
> output instructions of the same name, for example:
>
> The following built-in functions are available when both
> @option{-m3dnow}
> and @option{-march=athlon} are used. All of them generate the machine
> instruction that is part of the name.
>
>
> There's no detailed documentation on the operation of these built-ins or
> their argument types.
That is an implied reference to the architecture documentation. I
think that Paul's point is the most important one to come up so far,
and valid.
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