RE: Status of SSE support in current gcc mainline

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Berlin [mailto:dan@www.cgsoftware.com]
>Sent: 23 March 2001 16:04

>>   Do you have a pointer to any docs handy?
>DEveloper.intel.com has them somewhre, sorry i can't be more specific.

  Cheers, I'm sure I'll find them.

>The advantage motorola was trying to give you was the ability to perform
>normal arithmetic operations on vector types, without having to remember
>to use "vector_add(a,b)" or something of the sort (IE you could just do
>a+b).
>
>This is the same thing Intel's C++ class gives you, except they don't
>screw the base language to do it. They use overloaded operators.
>
>If you want to use the intrinsics, which are basically scheduled asms, you
>can. I was just trying to give a way to do what motorola was trying to do.

  Ahh, that's all clear now.  Yeah, overloaded operators are a sound way
to do it.

>If you want to use C, you have to use the intrinsics, obviously.
>
>But i don't think it's worth introducing completely new extensions that
>aren't exactly all that nice, just so you can type "a+b" rather than
>"vec_add(a,b)".

  Yeah, completely agree.  Thanks for all the clarifications.

    DaveK
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