Whoops, I forgot to document the new builtin. I just committed this change to
the documentation file. Sorry about that.
I also deleted the comment on the nop instruction, just in case there is a VSX
assembler some day that uses a different comment convention.
2014-03-27 Michael Meissner
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 02:06:23PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> Thanks for fixing the missing functions and documentation.
>
> Just to clarify the explanation, the builtin name remains
> __builtin_vsx_, but the altivec.h macro definition \ is
> vec_.
>
> Okay.
Yes. I can change if desired, bu
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Michael Meissner
wrote:
> One of the users within IBM noticed that we did not provide builtins for the
> XXSLDWI (vector shift left) and XXPERMDI (permute 64-bit values to make
> 128-bit
> vector) instructions. It turns out, we had provided these builtins, but we
One of the users within IBM noticed that we did not provide builtins for the
XXSLDWI (vector shift left) and XXPERMDI (permute 64-bit values to make 128-bit
vector) instructions. It turns out, we had provided these builtins, but we had
not documented them, nor did we add them to altivec.h with a u
