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| author | Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-03-31 15:04:34 +0000 |
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| committer | William Schmidt <wschmidt@gcc.gnu.org> | 2017-03-31 15:04:34 +0000 |
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extend.texi (PowerPC AltiVec Built-in Functions): Add reference to the OpenPOWER 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification.
2017-03-31 Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* doc/extend.texi (PowerPC AltiVec Built-in Functions): Add
reference to the OpenPOWER 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification.
From-SVN: r246617
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi index fadbc96..0f44ece 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi @@ -15539,6 +15539,15 @@ Internally, GCC uses built-in functions to achieve the functionality in the aforementioned header file, but they are not supported and are subject to change without notice. +GCC complies with the OpenPOWER 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification, +which may be found at +@uref{http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/leabi-prd/content/index.html}. +Appendix A of this document lists the vector API interfaces that must be +provided by compliant compilers. Programmers should preferentially use +the interfaces described therein. However, historically GCC has provided +additional interfaces for access to vector instructions. These are +described briefly below. + The following interfaces are supported for the generic and specific AltiVec operations and the AltiVec predicates. In cases where there is a direct mapping between generic and specific operations, only the |