On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 22:18 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Bill Schmidt wrote: > > > Yes, sorry for not being more clear. This is indeed for interpretation > > of element numbers in Altivec intrinsics such as vec_splat, vec_extract, > > vec_insert, and so forth. By default these will match array element > > order for the target endianness. But with -maltivec=be for a little > > endian target, we will force use of big-endian element order (matching > > the behavior of the underlying hardware instructions). > > Thanks for the explanation. I think you should make the .texi > documentation say something more like this. >
Sure, I can wordsmith something along those lines. Thanks for the feedback! Bill
