From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, kumar@chaos.ph.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: AltiVec support in GCC
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000220105630.B2291@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200002190112.RAA17849@kankakee.wrs.com>
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~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-02-20 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-18 17:13 Mike Stump
2000-02-18 18:04 ` Stan Shebs
2000-02-20 10:56 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
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2003-04-08 10:10 altivec support in gcc Michel LESPINASSE
2003-04-09 16:57 ` Aldy Hernandez
2003-04-09 22:55 ` Michel LESPINASSE
2000-02-18 18:47 AltiVec support in GCC Mike Stump
2000-02-19 15:03 ` Geoff Keating
2000-02-17 20:30 Kumar Gala
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