From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31934 invoked by alias); 21 May 2002 00:32:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31887 invoked from network); 21 May 2002 00:32:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 May 2002 00:32:28 -0000 Received: from culebra.cygnus.com (taarna.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.102]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA15896; Mon, 20 May 2002 17:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from aldyh@localhost) by culebra.cygnus.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) id g4L0Vic12171; Tue, 21 May 2002 10:31:44 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:32:00 -0000 From: Aldy Hernandez To: Michael Snyder Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, ezannoni@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Tests for vector types? Message-ID: <20020521003143.GF12079@redhat.com> References: <3CE98F1E.593D2A1A@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CE98F1E.593D2A1A@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00243.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:04:46PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote: > Say, these new vector types such as exist for Altivec... > are they going to be generally available to GCC users from now on? > Like, say, on i386-Linux? they are already in x86: sse, mmx, etc. > If so, we should make up some generic tests for them for gdb. unfortunately the tests can't be too generic because they depend on the architecture having support for the SIMD type. say, you can't test V4SI on an architecture that only provides 64bit SIMD registers (V2SI). i have some patches i'm polishing up to provide just that-- any SIMD type (say V4SI) regardless of if the hardware supports it. this will make it easier to write generic tests. aldy