[OE-core] Adding TARGET_VECTOR

[Khem Raj]

On 8/25/2011 7:35 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> We have some packages like flac that are aware of vectorization that may or may not exist on a given processor.  I was wondering if adding something like TARGET_VECTOR similar to TARGET_FPU made sense as a way for recipes to decide on how to set various vectorization flags if needed.
>
> I was looking at this mostly from the PPC side in which we have:
>
> TARGET_VECTOR = "" /* processor has no vector hw */
> TARGET_VECTOR = "altivec" /* processor has AltiVec support */
> TARGET_VECTOR = "spe" /* processor has signal processing engine support */
> TARGET_VECTOR = "vsx" /* processor has Vector-Scalar Extension */
>

is target vector a property of FPU itself or is it a separate processing 
unit in hardware.?


> Not sure what makes sense for x86, ARM, or MIPS.

>
> - k
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