[LLVMdev] review: gcc4 patches for cell-spu

Scott Michel scottm at rushg.aero.org
Mon Jul 16 17:31:12 PDT 2007


Scott Michel wrote:
> As Andy Pinski pointed out, there were some really good reasons why Cell
> SPU support never made it into gcc 4.2. I've attached the patches from
> the 4.1.1 compiler, and I've applied+compiled them in my local tree.
> 
> I suggested creating a branch, but since they appear to be relatively
> disjoint, the need for a branch doesn't seem necessary.
> 
> Sorry for the large patch file -- I didn't think that suddenly applying
> this patch set to the source tree would get me good karma points... :-)

And, this is an incomplete patch file... ok, now I need some guidance --
should I commit these diffs and then start adding the new files or ask
for a review of the entire patch set (which'll be pretty large)?


-scooter



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