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Re: A bit of vector extension documentation
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: A bit of vector extension documentation
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:33:37 -0400
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109271622590.737-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109271556440.27756-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:06:25PM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> However, I'm still doubtful about exposing a lowlevel interface like
> __attribute__((mode)). So I came up with the patch below, which adds a
> new file gcc_vector.h. This currently provides types for the i386 MMX and
> SSE extensions, it can be extended for other CPUs (that's why it's not in
> config/i386).
Why not put it in config/i386 anyway? That way each architecture which
wants to expose vector types can have its own file, and we won't have
one large cluttered file with special cases for every architecture in
it.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer