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Re: PATCH: x86/x86-64: Support Intel MNI intrinsics
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> In general this patch looks pretty much OK (one comment below). But
> I'm still uncomfortable with the "MNI" which appears all over the
> patch, including the option name, the preprocessor macro, and the
> documentation. If we have to change the name MNI later--which to me
> seems very likely--we are going to give ourselves a backward
> compatibility problem.
>
> So, frankly, my inclination is to postpone the patch until we know the
> right name, to reduce end user confusion.
I agree. As discussed at the summit, this is one of those cases where
if it's important enough to Intel to have this functionality in the
compiler, they can commit to the name. And, this is certainly a new
feature, at a late point in the release cycle. So, let's hold it for 4.3.
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