A Far Less Ambitous AltiVec patch
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Feb 2 23:55:00 GMT 2004
>> But, I can't see why we can't just define a common mangling for
>> "vector of N elements of type T". That would be useful for other
>> architectures as well.
>
>
> Perhaps I snould add a, say, '-maltivec-mangle' option, and then then
> have -faltivec map to -maltivec + -maltivec-mangle ? Then, '-maltivec'
> users will still get the generic mangling. What do you think?
I'd support a generic way of mangling the type "vector of N elements of
type T".
If you want to do a specific, Altivec-only mangling that's primarily up
to the RS6000 maintainers, I suppose.
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Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
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