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Re: (something of an absence of) SSE2 documentation


> > Hi.
> >
> > In what section of which manual ought the asm() constraints for SSE
> > registers to be documented? They somehow fall between the cracks;
> > I was expecting to find the documentation in a "machine-specific"
> > section under "extended assembly" in info gcc. It wouldn't make
> > sense to document them in info as, they're very much gcc constructs.
>
> It is documented in the Constraints section of manual, as any other
> constraints are.  You seems to be using old version of manual, please
> use one distributed with snapshots.

No, I'm using the one distributed with the snapshots; I had expected to find
"constraints" as a subsection of "Extended Asm" and, not seeing it there,
didn't think of looking at the next level up.

> The SSE2 intrinsics are not supported yet, as long as I remember.

Indeed not, as I look in i386/i386.c. And when I tried defining one by hand,
I hit the ICE I've just reported to the list

Tom


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