[PATCH] internals doc, AltiVec builtins [oops, GCC Manual, not internals]

[Janis Johnson]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:23:27PM -0700, Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:18:47AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > >Thanks.  Now I need approval from a documentation maintainer.  My original
> > >message said this was the internals manual, but it's really the extensions
> > >part of the GCC Manual.
> > 
> > I have some minor remarks, most of which also apply to the original 
> > version of those parts that you have been touching.  Your patch is
> > fine, just consider the following comments before committing (where,
> > as usual, these are recommendations, not requirements).
> > 
> > At one place you write "PowerPC family of computers".  Might using 
> > processor here be preferrable?
> > 
> > "Vector constants are done with curly braces": how about replacing
> > "done" with something more descriptive?
> > 
> > Gerald
> 
> Thanks, Gerald, those are good suggestions.  They got me to read the
> first part again carefully and I changed it around quite a bit.  In
> particular there are some additions to the list of differences from
> Motorola syntax that I'd like to add in a later patch, so I've split
> up the current list into separate items.  How's this?  It doesn't
> include the diffs for the huge list of prototypes, which is the same
> as in the original patch.

I got impatient and committed this version so that I can submit further
patches against it.  Tested again with 'make info' and 'make dvi'.

Janis