The Power Vector ABI is available at https://github.com/power8-abi-doc/vector-function-abi
It apparently did not attach correctly to the sourceware wiki or the filename is different. Thanks, David On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 1:44 PM GT <tng...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:49 PM, Segher Boessenkool > <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > This is about the Power binding to some OpenMP API, right? It has > > nothing to do with "vector" or "ABI" -- we have vectors already, and > > we have ABIs already, more than enough of each. > > > > It is very very VERY hard to review this without being told the proper > > setting here. > > > > What this is about: > > David Edelsohn wanted to have new library functions, one for each of these 6 > single-precision functions: > sinf, cosf, sincosf, expf, logf, powf; and these 6 double-precision functions: > sin, cos, sincos, exp, log, and pow. > > For the single-precision functions, the corresponding new functions would > compute 4 results > simulatneously. For the double-precision functions, the new ones would > compute 2 results > simultaneously. > > x86_64 has already done something very similar so I thought I would adapt as > much of their > documentation and implementation as I could for PPC64. > > Let's start with that. Comments so far? > > Bert.
