SSE types and structures

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Mon Jun 17 13:46:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:26:09PM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> I am just poking around this.  It appears to be tricky, as the __builtin
> interface appears to be built around assumtpion that __m64 == long long.
> All the functions returns long long and I don't see way to cast it into
> V8QI and back easilly.

Well, duh, you'd do it uneasily and change them all, or add
a cast at every single invocation.

> Perhaps I can go half way, use __attribute__ (align (8)) for 3.1 and try
> to figure out better way for 3.2...

That doesn't help you with the x86-64 abi.


r~



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