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Re: Altivec discussion summary, future direction
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at desire dot geoffk dot org>
- To: alexr at spies dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, aldyh at redhat dot com, dalej at apple dot com, zlaski at apple dot com, zack at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:31:47 -0800
- Subject: Re: Altivec discussion summary, future direction
- References: <200312312130.hBVLULKZ020475@desire.geoffk.org> <20031231214753.GA22413@redhat.com> <877k0cfwhj.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <F552B983-3C02-11D8-808B-003065FC08E4@spies.com>
> From: Alex Rosenberg <alexr@spies.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:34:01 -0800
> On Dec 31, 2003, at 2:33 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >> WRT the comma initializer discussion, it was my understanding that
> >> Motorola
> >> had added the curly brace initializer to the PIM, in addition to the
> >> brain dead comma initializer scheme-- and that other compiler vendors
> >> were moving towards the curly brace implementation.
> >
> > This was also my understanding.
>
> Can somebody please point to this changed PIM?
>
> I've seen nothing of the kind.
I suspect that what happened is that Motorola never released the
changed PIM. The last version on their web site is dated 6/1999, and
my copy of it with that date is "Rev. 0" so I presume it's also the
first version. I can't even find the actual PDF on their site now
(the link to it seems broken).
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>