Re: Altivec discussion summary, future direction

[Kumar Gala <kumar dot gala at motorola dot com>]

Actually there has NOT been an update to the PIM from Motorola.  We 
have discussed the idea of fix some issues (including adding support 
for {} brace syntax).  Sorry for not clarifying this earlier.

- kumar

On Jan 1, 2004, at 4:31 PM, Geoff Keating wrote:

> > 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).
>
> --
> - Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>