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RE: [PATCH] Merging Cilk Plus into Trunk (Patch 1 of approximately 22)
Sorry, I didn't see this message. Please see my responses below:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Glisse [mailto:marc.glisse@inria.fr]
>Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 7:04 AM
>To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
>Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis; Iyer, Balaji V; Aldy Hernandez (aldyh@redhat.com); Jeff Law;
>rth@redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Merging Cilk Plus into Trunk (Patch 1 of approximately 22)
>
>On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, Marc Glisse wrote:
>
>> AFAIU, my_func is defined in a separate library and because of the
>> attribute on the definition, it will actually export overloads:
>> int myfunc(int,int);
>> v2si myfunc(v2si,v2si);
>> v4si myfunc(v4si,v4si);
>> etc (where does it stop? seems problematic if the library is compiled
>> for
>> sse4 and I then compile and link an avx program)
>
>According to the doc, it only generates one of these vector versions (even more
>risk of mismatch).
>
>Does it actually create the extra declaration in the front-end, i.e. can I explicitly
>call myfunc on a v4si that I created myself, or is the middle-end the only user?
Yes you can call the function yourself.
>
>--
>Marc Glisse