[LLVMdev] Turning on/off instruction extensions

[Pablo Barrio]

Ok you convinced me, I'll switch to 3.0 as soon as it comes out. This vectorizer seems like the kind of thing I'm looking for.

On 29/11/2011, at 16:39, James Molloy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There are a *lot* of changes (around 15000 commits if I recall Chris'
> keynote) between 2.9 and 3.0/trunk. It does sound like you're on a lost
> cause at the moment - you can't ignore those patching errors.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On
> Behalf Of Pablo Barrio
> Sent: 29 November 2011 15:29
> To: Hal Finkel
> Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Turning on/off instruction extensions
> 
> Sorry, the previous mail was unreadable:
> 
> On 28/11/2011, at 18:52, Hal Finkel wrote:
> 
>> First, grab the trunk versions of llvm and clang. This is detailed on
>> http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
>> 
>> Then you apply the patch. On a Unix-like system, this is something like:
>> cd llvm
>> patch -p1 < /path/to/the-patch-file.diff
>> 
> 
> I tried to apply the patch to llvm 2.9 (not the trunk) but it shows a lot of
> "... hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file ...". Is it safe to ignore these
> errors? Is it impossible to apply this patch to LLVM 2.9? Do you have a
> version of the vectorizer patch compatible with LLVM and Clang 2.9?
> 
> Right now I cannot switch to the trunk version.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Pablo
> 
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