From: jrosenau@midway.uchicago.edu
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: AltiVec on Linux
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:26:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000308142652.I5723@midway.uchicago.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v04011708b4ec4b0ae554@[129.116.196.236]>; from gallen@arlut.utexas.edu on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:59:29PM -0600
So on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:59:29PM -0600, Greg Allen was all like,
>Unfortunately, powerpc-eabisim-g++ doesn't recognize "vector" at all.
>That's right, boys and girls, NO C++ SUPPORT WITH ALTIVEC!
>
>So we have to patch g++ the same way gcc was patched -- to extend the C++
>language for AltiVec.
But vector is already a type in the STL, so it can't be supported in g++
without breaking that. I guess you could overload all sorts of neat
stuff, but it really does sound like a hack. Why not create a standard
library that would handle MMX, 3Dnow!, Altivec, whatever? If there's a
standard interface to those, we should encourage Motorola to make
altivec work the same way.
Josh
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-08 18:59 AltiVec on Linux Greg Allen
2000-03-08 20:26 ` jrosenau [this message]
2000-03-09 9:42 ` Adrian Cox
2000-03-22 18:46 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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