I would like to raise the idea of implementing a new patch for context-sensitive keywords for Altivec support in GCC. This thread from late 2003 discusses a way forward for various Altivec features, much of which has been thrashed out:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-12/msg01440.html There were two degrees of opposition to context-sensitive keywords: (1) outright opposition to it in principle; (2) agreement in principle, but conditional on a clean and simple implementation Geoff Keating wrote back then: "Item (2), the context-sensitive vector keyword, as a standalone patch, as simple and clean as possible, and including clear and precise documentation on exactly when 'vector' gets treated as a keyword. This patch might be integrated into the mainline, if it's sufficiently clean; if not, it can go into contrib/ and Apple will keep it as a local patch." I would like to ask the relevant maintainers if such a patch, sufficiently well written, would be accepted into GCC during the next stage 1 period? If so, are there any preferred approaches to the implementation? I gather that the conditional macro technique was not very popular. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM
