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Re: Altivec - declaring variables named vec_madd and vec_vmaddfp
- From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 08 Nov 2002 09:26:48 -0800
- Subject: Re: Altivec - declaring variables named vec_madd and vec_vmaddfp
- References: <20021108051057.GO795@egil.codesourcery.com>
>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
> I've got a test case here that expects
> #include <altivec.h>
> /* variables with external-linkage */
> extern int vec_madd;
> extern short vec_vmaddfp;
Don't do that.
> 1) Do we care? This test suite is pretty old, dating from the time
> when vec_madd and vec_vmaddfp were built in functions by those
> names, and you didn't even have to include altivec.h.
Not at all.
> 2) If we do care, what do we do about it?
We don't ;-).
Aldy