Iain Buclaw wrote:
I'm refusing to implement any intrinsic that is tied to a specific architecture.
I see. So the __builtin_ia32_***() functions in gcc.builtins are architecture agnostic? I couldn't find much documentation about them on the web. Do you have any references you could pass on?
I guess it makes sense to just make std.simd the lib everyone uses for a "base-line" support of SIMD and let DMD do what it wants with it's core.simd lib. It sounds like gcc.builtins is just a layer above core.simd anyways. Although now it seems that DMD's std.simd will need a bunch of 'static if (architectureX) { ... }' for every GDC builtin... wounder if later that shouldn't be moved to (and standerized) a 'core.builtins' module or something.
Thanks for the explanation.
