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Re: [PATCH 1/14] [x86_64] Vector math functions (vector cos)
- From: Andrew Senkevich <andrew dot n dot senkevich at gmail dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:46:11 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] [x86_64] Vector math functions (vector cos)
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2015-06-05 19:44 GMT+03:00 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> Note that the addition of the first libmvec functions should be
> accompanied by a NEWS entry describing this new feature in 2.22. (That
> NEWS entry can then be updated for each new function added - of course
> anything added after 2.22 is released gets a separate NEWS entry for
> 2.23.)
Is this update ok?
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 881e61c..18ce8d5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ Version 2.22
* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
condition in some applications.
+
+* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
+ implementations: cos.
+ Naming of x86_64 implementations is in accordance with
+ Vector ABI <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/x86-64-abi/LmppCfN1rZ4>.
+ Vector math library build and ABI testing enabled by default for x86_64.
^L
Version 2.21
I also would like to add wiki page (with content mostly based on
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libm#Addition_of_x86_64_vector_math_functions_to_Glibc)
to 5.4. Internals Documentation at
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki#Development and add according link
to NEWS.
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WBR,
Andrew