From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16275 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2001 20:57:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 16240 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 20:57:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 20:57:35 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fARKvZX07667 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:57:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:57:20 -0800 Received: from apple.com (vpn-gh-30.apple.com [17.254.136.29]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fARKvXG12950; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:57:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C03FE28.2EAB6BED@apple.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:34:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joseph S. Myers" CC: Ziemowit Laski , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for altivec) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00876.txt.bz2 "Joseph S. Myers" wrote: > > If we accept anything like this feature in GCC, it should be clean and > well-defined. The feature as it is at present - a mess - apparently comes > from a multi-vendor language model. Where is the specification? All at www.altivec.org, including the 260-page programming interface specification. I'm sure you'll find plenty of loopholes in it though. Stan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Ziemowit Laski , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for altivec) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3C03FE28.2EAB6BED@apple.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01377.html Message-ID: <20011127125700.vGdITMhALx6bD5HlZEaX7xkwIjsJSURjwKtdb4qTTZ0@z> "Joseph S. Myers" wrote: > > If we accept anything like this feature in GCC, it should be clean and > well-defined. The feature as it is at present - a mess - apparently comes > from a multi-vendor language model. Where is the specification? All at www.altivec.org, including the 260-page programming interface specification. I'm sure you'll find plenty of loopholes in it though. Stan