Baby's First AldyVec/AltiVec patch

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Thu Dec 25 04:27:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:35:06PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> However, this question has already been debated and decided; the
> decision was not to support the old syntax.

Indeed.

And, as I recall, Jason wrote a patch (which we did not install)
that did implement Motorola's syntax and semantics.  I had thought
we put it in the contrib directory for users that wanted that, but
I don't see it now.

I do not think this patch should be installed.  If Apple wants to
contribute a new on-the-side patch, and install it in their code
base by default, fine.  But I don't think it should go in FSF 
mainline.  It is definitely The Wrong Thing.


r~



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