Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 21 21:06:00 GMT 2007

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>> I'm still a little bit unsure here: The disassembler has no -maltivec 
>> option, it will disassemble AltiVec instructions by default ("For 
>> convenience"). So, should it also disassemble VMX128 instructions by 
>> default?
>
> Yes.
>
> I was think that we would only need the -mvmx128 option for the 
> assembler.

VMX128 isn't part of the PowerPC architecture, it is possible
that different CPU implementations will reuse the same opcodes
for something else.  VMX/AltiVec _is_ part of the architecture
so it doesn't have that problem.

I think you should have a -mvmx128 option for the disassembler,
too.


Segher

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