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Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for altivec)
- From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- To: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: 26 Nov 2001 20:48:47 -0600
- Subject: Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for altivec)
- References: <339DE634-E2DE-11D5-A770-0030658361CA@apple.com>
> Unfortunately, AltiVec extensions are (syntactically) quite yucky.
> Legacy
> Motorola/Apple/IBM code is likely to rely not only on '__vector' and
> '__pixel'
very yucky and i'm getting the feeling it's never going to be approved
as is-- as the motorola specs stand.
> But this brings up a more general question, one that I've been meaning to
> ask of the wider community for quite some time: Should we come up with a
> generalized architecture in GCC (for all front-ends) to enable front-end
it should only be enabled with a flag.
aldy