Xeon Phi

[Anthony Green]

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

> On 14/10/14 10:16, pinskia@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> 
>>> On Oct 14, 2014, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the status of Xeon Phi support?  There seem to be some packages on the
>>> Interweb, but I don't see anything in libffi git.
>> 
>> Xeon phi is just x86_64 linux. 
>
> No it's not.  There is a completely different FPU and a different ABI.

Yes, there's no SSE instructions, and more...

Somebody needs to find the relevant changes in here and submit them:
https://github.com/bpartridge/xeon_phi_ctypes/tree/master/libffi

AG