AltiVec support in GCC

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:12:53PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> Sounds half way reasonable.  I have here in my hand a piece of paper,
> no, a compiler for the Pentium III SSE with intrinsic support for SSE.
> It adds a vector type to the compiler also.

Actually, there's a big difference.  The SSE support adds a vector type
to the _back end_.  It does not change the C/C++ front end at all.  There
are no new language constructs.  All the SSE support is had though
builtin functions that operate on a TImode type.

I am a big fan of not doing language extensions.


r~