I mentioned that I would start a build/check on a big endian power8 system in
the last set of patches. There were no regressions with this set of patches on
a big endian system, testing both 32-bit and 64-bit code generation.
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Michael Meissner, IBM
PO Box 98, Ayer, Massachusetts, USA, 01432
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These patches are a refinement of the patches to add XXSPLTIDP support on
September 13th. These patches generate instructions that load up a VSX
register with certain constants instead of using PLXV to load the constant.
On the Power10:
* XXSPLTIDP is a prefixed instruction that takes a value e