From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Henderson To: Mike Stump 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 Message-id: <20000220105630.B2291@cygnus.com> References: <200002190112.RAA17849@kankakee.wrs.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-02/msg00585.html 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~