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Re: Vector Extensions in GCC
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Vector Extensions in GCC
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:43:24 -0700
- cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
> and nearer to the spirit of C. (Just because merging the front ends would
> make it easier to support C++ features as extensions to C, and C99 and GNU
> C features as extensions to C++, doesn't mean we should do so without
> justification in individual cases that the feature is appropriate, in
> terms of design and style, for the language in question.)
To be clear, I'm only talking about an implementation technique, not
a language extension. It's just that we could implement the function,
in the guts of the compiler, as a template -- one that was builtin,
not one that ever appeared in source code.
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