Re: PING^3 for PR target/17836, PR c/10735, PR c++/16882, PR rtl-optimization/17860[3.4]

[Devang Patel <dpatel at apple dot com>]

On Nov 24, 2004, at 10:41 AM, David Edelsohn wrote:

> 	The Altivec intrinsics are not actually function calls.  No
> arguments are passed and no results returned through any parameter 
> passing
> mechanism.  Everything is within a single Altivec instruction.

All intrinsics are not decorated with  'always_inline' attribute in 
altivec.h so, they are not always directly replaced by instruction 
through altivec builtins.

Even if they are marked as always_inline, debug info will always 
identify them as inlined functions. But that's different issue.

>   If GCC is
> complaining about the intrinsic because it looks like a function call, 
> GCC
> is confused.
-
Devang