From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
To: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@apple.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for altivec)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:46:00 -0000
Message-ID: <1006829327.2429.12.camel@litecycle.cc.andrews.edu>
References: <339DE634-E2DE-11D5-A770-0030658361CA@apple.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01316.html
Message-ID: <20011126184600.h0cDBXaw4g4znj-tFoHNf0zcQ_pNKMezFxZdYVoK3s0@z>

> Unfortunately, AltiVec extensions are (syntactically) quite yucky.  
> Legacy
> Motorola/Apple/IBM code is likely to rely not only on '__vector' and 
> '__pixel'

very yucky and i'm getting the feeling it's never going to be approved
as is-- as the motorola specs stand.

> But this brings up a more general question, one that I've been meaning to
> ask of the wider community for quite some time: Should we come up with a
> generalized architecture in GCC (for all front-ends) to enable front-end

it should only be enabled with a flag.

aldy