[PATCH] D47182: [X86] Move all Intel defined intrinsic includes into immintrin.h

[Craig Topper via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

craig.topper added a comment.

First there was mmintrin.h which covered MMX instructions. Then xmmintrin.h came along to support SSE1 and implicitly included mmintrin.h. The emmintrin.h to support SSE2 and implicitly included xmmintrin.h. This repeated for each new version of SSE. With each header file including the previous header file. I think most of the later SSE headers start with the first letter of the code name of the CPU that added that SSE level including cancelled projects. So nmmintrin.h refers to Nehalem. tmmintrin.h came from the cancelled Tejas CPU. wmmintrin.h referes to Westmere. pmmintrin.h refers to Penryn. Eventually this was determined to not be very scalable to remember which header file contained what intrinsics and you have to change it with each generation to get the latest.. So immintrin.h was created to just include everything. I assume the 'i' here just stands for Intel. The 'mm' is just historic legacy due to the earlier file names.  x86intrin.h was created by gcc to hold the intrinsics not specified by Intel. I think icc has an x86intrin.h that just includes immintrin.h.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D47182