MMX documentation

Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
Tue Oct 2 16:56:00 GMT 2001


"Joseph S. Myers" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Stan Shebs wrote:
> 
> > I bring this up because the many AltiVec builtins will bloat the
> > manual even further.  I'm sure users would prefer a GCC manual with
> > info on GCC, not long lists of vector builtins for various cpus. :-)
> 
> We should err on the side of having more detailed documentation rather
> than less.

But that's the problem - the documentation isn't more detailed, just
more voluminous.  Saying that __builtin_ia32_psubb implements psubb,
ad nauseum, isn't more useful than saying __builtin_ia32_@var{name}
implements @var{name} for all @var{name}.

Stan



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