[LLVMdev] Implementing the ARM NEON Intrinsics for PowerPC

[Hal Finkel]

Stan,

Do you mean that you want to emulate the ARM NEON intrinsics on PowerPC?

 -Hal

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> 
> 
> Hello LLVM Devs,
> 
> 
> Thanks for helping me previously to cross-compile for ARM, I managed
> to get a working toolchain and am currently having fun compiling
> different toy problems and running them on a pandaboard.
> 
> As part of my research I am trying to implement the ARM NEON
> Intrinsics in the PowerPC LLVM backend. I am still at the beginning
> of my efforts and am not yet familiar with either the ARM or the
> PowerPC backends. After I started investigating the code and found
> out that in total it is more than 100 kloc for the two backends I
> thought it is a good idea to ask you for some hints of where I
> should start from.
> 
> I have written a small unrelated experimental backend for LLVM
> before, so I have some experience with the topic.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> - Stan
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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory