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Re: Status of SSE support in current gcc mainline
- To: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
- Subject: Re: Status of SSE support in current gcc mainline
- From: Samuel Figueroa <figueroa at apple dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:20:05 -0800
- Cc: Samuel Figueroa <figueroa at apple dot com>, Bernd Schmidt <bernds at cambridge dot redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thursday, March 22, 2001, at 12:27 PM, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> But if we want to have in gcc multiple targets with packed types
> support,
> we should try to find way to handle them in unified style.
>
> Also I believe that Apple is having some patches for PPC-Altivec
> instricts
> available somewhere too.
>
> Honza
Unfortunately, a number of patches in Apple's gcc-2.95.2-based
compiler needs to be rewritten in order to work in gcc 3.x.
Hopefully, some of the SSE code can be used to support AltiVec as
well. That's why I'm trying to find out what SSE-specific source
programs look like, and what gcc does with them.