PowerPC vector unit (Altivec) support

[Michael Meissner]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:17:06AM -0700, J.T. Conklin wrote:
> I have added support for most of the PowerPC vector unit instructions
> to binutils.  Still left to do are the data stream instructions: dss,
> dssall, dst, dstt, and dstst.  The Altivec user's/programmer's manual
> does not indicate how the stream operand is encoded, and I have not
> been able to find code samples that use these instructions.  I want
> to look a bit more before contributing those patterns.

Just to be sure -- is it true that none of this work used the Apple and
Motorola Altivec patches for which we still do not have clear copyright
assignment (evidently we now have it for Apple but not Motorola)?

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