[PATCH] Alpha hwcaps
Falk Hueffner
falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Mar 3 08:38:00 GMT 2004
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
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