> I considered trying to make a set of VIS headers compatible with the > vis_*.h headers Sun provides in medialib and Sun Studio, but that's > not possible since we use fundamentally different types in the > builtins provided by GCC. > > Sun uses "double" and "float" in the declarations whereas we use our > vector types. > > I even checked various users of Sun's VIS intrinsics and they all just > declare their vector variables as "float" and "double" so it would be > impossible to provide headers that would work out of the box.
Yes, I have some recollections of that. > Eric, any objections? None, this looks OK to me. -- Eric Botcazou
