Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/20/14:06:01
Eliot wrote:
> Patrick / Albert Fong wrote:
> >
> > Will a later version of DJGPP/GCC support Intel's MMX instruction set?
>
> This may be irrelevant, but NASM supports MMX instructions and is
> supposedly compatible with the *.o format. I'm no expert, but it seems
> to me MMX instructions will in most cases have to be inlined or in a
> separate asm module in any case, even if the compiler does support it.
>
Hmmmm ..... I guess that the Intel's MMX is the major jump in the
PCs in the last 7 or 8 years, until now M$ only promess support for
inline MMX and decompilation of MMX instruction but from my point of
view a C compiler that generates code using MMX will be MUCH MUCH
BETTER than a silly compiler using only the old instruction set. And
from my point of view the problem is that you'll need to extend the C
to get all the power of the MMX architecture, and that's the real
problem!, the data types used in MMX are a little different to the
actual data types of the ANSI C.
But again the first compiler supporting MMX will be the winner BY
FAR if the rest only support inline MMX.
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