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Re: [PATCH] Support VMX128 Instruction for PowerPC
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