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From: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: A bit of vector extension documentation
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1001660651.26282.7.camel@sonja> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109271556440.27756-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Don, 2001-09-27 at 17:06, Bernd Schmidt wrote:

> However, I'm still doubtful about exposing a lowlevel interface like
> __attribute__((mode)).  So I came up with the patch below, which adds a
> new file gcc_vector.h.  This currently provides types for the i386 MMX and
> SSE extensions, it can be extended for other CPUs (that's why it's not in
> config/i386).

I'm actually more concerned about the braindead interface to those functions.
Using __bultin_whatever to apply single operations to SIMD types is about
as comfortable as inline ASM programming at large with the advantage of
scheduling.

--
Servus,
       Daniel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-28  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109271622590.737-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
2001-09-27  8:06 ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-27  8:24   ` Jan Hubicka
2001-09-27  8:45     ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-27  8:32   ` Gerald Pfeifer
2001-09-27  9:04   ` Matt Kraai
2001-09-27 11:34   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-09-27 12:33   ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-27 12:37     ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-27 12:44       ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-27 12:45         ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-28  0:05   ` Daniel Egger [this message]
2001-09-28  0:39     ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-28  0:59       ` Daniel Egger
2001-09-28  1:32         ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-28  1:56           ` Daniel Egger
2001-09-28  8:48           ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-28  9:38             ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-28 10:13               ` David Edelsohn
2001-09-28 10:25                 ` Diego Novillo
2001-09-28 12:11                   ` Toon Moene
2001-09-28 12:45                     ` Diego Novillo
2001-09-28 13:21                     ` Tim Prince
2001-09-29 14:33                       ` Aldy Hernandez
2001-09-28 15:37                   ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-29 17:11               ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-29 19:37                 ` Richard Henderson

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