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Re: [x86-64 psABI]: Extend x86-64 psABI to support AVX-512
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, "Girkar, Milind" <milind dot girkar at intel dot com>, "Kreitzer, David L" <david dot l dot kreitzer at intel dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:42:32 -0700
- Subject: Re: [x86-64 psABI]: Extend x86-64 psABI to support AVX-512
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Richard Biener
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Richard Biener
>><richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Here is a patch to extend x86-64 psABI to support AVX-512:
>>>
>>> Afaik avx 512 doubles the amount of xmm registers. Can we get them
>>callee saved please?
>>>
>>
>>Make them callee saved means we need to change ld.so to
>>preserve them and we need to change unwind library to
>>support them. It is certainly doable.
>
> IMHO it was a mistake to not have any callee saved xmm register in the original abi - we should fix this at this opportunity. Loops with function calls are not that uncommon.
>
Are there any other Linux targets with callee saved vector registers?
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H.J.