From 3a44da9ea761716a91f8524e901a7d42d4a3f96c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:04:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] extend.texi (PowerPC AltiVec Built-in Functions): Add
reference to the OpenPOWER 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification.
2017-03-31 Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* doc/extend.texi (PowerPC AltiVec Built-in Functions): Add
reference to the OpenPOWER 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification.
From-SVN: r246617
---
gcc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gcc/doc/extend.texi | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 594b32a4563d..3fd3b8416988 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2017-03-31 Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
+ * doc/extend.texi (PowerPC AltiVec Built-in Functions): Add
+ reference to the OpenPOWER 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification.
+
2017-03-31 Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com>
* config/mips/mips-msa.md (msa_vec_extract_<msafmt_f>): Update
diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
index fadbc9673f03..0f44ece7720d 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
@@ -15539,6 +15539,15 @@ Internally, GCC uses built-in functions to achieve the functionality in
the aforementioned header file, but they are not supported and are
subject to change without notice.
+GCC complies with the OpenPOWER 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification,
+which may be found at
+@uref{http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/leabi-prd/content/index.html}.
+Appendix A of this document lists the vector API interfaces that must be
+provided by compliant compilers. Programmers should preferentially use
+the interfaces described therein. However, historically GCC has provided
+additional interfaces for access to vector instructions. These are
+described briefly below.
+
The following interfaces are supported for the generic and specific
AltiVec operations and the AltiVec predicates. In cases where there
is a direct mapping between generic and specific operations, only the
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