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Re: GNU Fortran 90?
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: GNU Fortran 90?
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:28:47 -0800
- CC: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200011152122.QAA22146@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com>
David Edelsohn wrote:
>
> Motorola originally developed AltiVec support for GCC and Apple
> has carried it forward. I believe that there have been problems getting
> Motorola to assign the original work to the FSF so that Apple can
> contribute the current development.
As far as I can tell, Motorola has dropped any effort to assign copyright.
> All of the work may need to be completely restructured to fit into
> the MMX/SSE vector support that has been added to GCC for x86 instead of
> having multiple user-level interfaces to the same functionality.
Yes, the AltiVec and MMX/SSE bits do overlap in the front- and midde-ends.
This will ease the irritation of the shouldn't-be-necessary rewrite that I
suspect is in my future...
Stan