Altivec + 16 byte alignment

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.co.uk
Tue Feb 11 20:39:00 GMT 2003


Richard Kenner wrote:-

>     It's just a function call, exposed to the front end.  Nice and clean.
> 
> In which case, why not do it totally in the back end?  I don't see it as
> a big deal, but I'm not sure what you gain by adding a call to that function
> into every front end.

Better diagnostics, mainly.

Neil.



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