[LLVMdev] RFC: AVX Feature Specification

[David Greene]

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 13:58, Stefanus Du Toit wrote:
> On 30-Apr-09, at 6:38 PM, Dan Gohman wrote:
> > On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:02 PM, David Greene wrote:
> >> As I've been going along I've added feature flags for SSE4a and
> >> SSE5.  These
> >> really do need to be separate feature flags because having SSE4a and/
> >> or SSE5
> >> does not imply that you have SSE4.2 or SSE4.1.  So they can't be
> >> part of the
> >> X86SSELevel scheme.
>
> [...]
>
> > Offhand, I'd say SSE4a and SSE5 ought to be separate flags too.
>
> FWIW we added a flag for SSE4A in a commit yesterday, as well as more
> AMD architecture types.

Cool.  I'm about ready to start committing some meaty stuff.  I'm out of town
the rest of the week but there should be a flurry of things next week.

I've got pretty far in the AVX specification.  I'm able to generate SSE1-4.2
fp instructions in AVX form (not all fp instructions are specified yet, but 
the plumbing is in place) and am starting on the integer vector  instruction 
plumbing.

BTW, anyone know why Intel did the most idiotic thing possible and restricted 
integer vector instructions to 128 bits?  Stupid!

                                -Dave