[x86-64 psABI]: Extend x86-64 psABI to support AVX-512

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Wed Jul 24 18:25:00 GMT 2013


On 07/24/2013 05:23 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is a patch to extend x86-64 psABI to support AVX-512:
> 
> Afaik avx 512 doubles the amount of xmm registers. Can we get them callee saved please?

Having them callee saved pre-supposes that one knows the width of the register.

There's room in the instruction set for avx1024.  Does anyone believe that is
not going to appear in the next few years?


r~



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