[PATCH] A new meta intrinsic header file for current and future x86 instrinsics.

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:30 PM, rajagopal, dwarak
<dwarak.rajagopal@amd.com> wrote:
>>
>> If there are no further comments or objections from AMD people in the
>> next 48 hours, and since this header file is intended for _Intel_
>> intrinsics, it is OK for mainline.
>>
>> BTW: I guess there will be a header file (ammintrin.h ?) introduced to
>> include AMD defined intrinsics, so gcc can still add x86intrin.h that
>> will include both immintrin.h and eventual ammintrin.h. Hopefully,
> these
>> two intrinsics won't step onto each other toes.
>>
>> I hope this eventual solution is acceptable to both contributors.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Uros.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> This proposal is not acceptable to AMD for the following reasons:
>
> - GCC is an open source compiler that is vendor agnostic. We do not want
> to see vendor specific intrinsic files, as the ISAs are architecture
> specific primarily. This is how it has been till now (eg: emmintrin.h,
> xmmintrin.h, etc). Also there are many examples when AMD adopted SSE
> instructions after Intel created them, and Intel adopted AMD
> instructions after AMD came up with them (latest example: popcnt).
>
> - We recommend that there is only 1 intrinsic file used for all x86
> intrinsics. This seemed to have been agreed upon
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-04/msg00081.html). We prefer that this
> file be neutral and vendor agnostic,

There is no disagreement here.

> which immintrin.h is not.

immintrin.h is orthogonal to single intrinsic file for all x86 intrinsics.
We just renamed the existing gmmintrin.h to immintrin.h to follow icc.


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H.J.