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Re: Status of SSE support in current gcc mainline
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Hubicka" <jh@suse.cz>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:27 PM
> > Thanks. Just to give a little more context, I'd like to add some
> > support for the PowerPC's AltiVec (128-bit) data types.
> >
> > By the way, I did notice some support for packed 32-bit integers.
> > Bernd, I would appreciate it if you could point me at header files
> > or sample programs showing how SSE instructions are actually
> > accessed using gcc. (I've found web sites that talk about using
> > Intel's compiler, for example, for this purpose. I don't know if
> > the same sample programs could be compiled without modification
> > using gcc.)
> I believe that design goal of the SSE instricts are to be compatible
> with Intel's one at user level.
>
> 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.
Is that the same as the Altivec-enabled 2.95.2 available at
http://www.altivec.org/ ? I couldn't find anything obvious on that website
that mentioned who was behind it.
DaveK