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Re: [PATCH] Alpha hwcaps
- From: Falk Hueffner <falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 03 Mar 2004 09:10:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alpha hwcaps
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Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:23:27AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > OTOH, I will then have to
> > use strcmp to find the correct strlenpair table entry, so it won't
> > really be much easier.
>
> Huh? You don't have to do *anything*. It's already handled by
> common code.
But the common code looks only at a single platform. I would for
example want to have a fallback from ev67 to ev6 if there's no ev67
version, and then to ev56 and so on.
> > Those don't seem very important, but pca56 would be nice.
>
> How many libraries do you expect to use MAX insns?
Not a lot. However, if one had the fallback model, there would be no
harm in adding it.
--
Falk