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Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for altivec)
- From: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: Ira Ruben <ira at apple dot com>, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:35:16 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for altivec)
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
> Ira Ruben wrote:
>
> > At 9:47 AM -0800 11/27/01, Stan Shebs wrote:
> >
> > I'm not going to get into a debate with you about design decisions of
> > the past when you weren't there and don't know the context in which
> > those were made. It may be your opinion about how "hard" it is to
> > support "vector" this way.
>
> You're missing the point, which is not how easy or hard it is to implement
> the feature. The hard part is coming up with an acceptable, well-defined,
> documented, portable feature that makes sense in the context of gcc,
> that can be maintained, and that you can get the gcc maintainers to
> agree to.
>
> > I do not agree. If it was so easy for MrC[pp] and I assume Mcc and MW
> > I do not see a problem with gcc.
>
> Perhaps because we here have a longer-term perspective, or because we
> have different
> priorities. We support vastly more targets than they do.
>
And more to the point, we already have targets with different vector
sizes.
It's not just a theoretical possibility.
It already exists.
> --Per Bothner
>
>