On 04/01/2016 10:32 PM, Jerry James wrote: > Yesterday I sent a patch upstream that uses gcc's indirect function > support together with __attribute__((target ...)) to build vanilla > x86_64, PCLMUL-enabled, AVX-enabled, and FMA-enabled varieties of > several functions. Upstream was initially excited about this but > then, on further reflection, offered the opinion that this approach is > dangerous. The problem is that some of the types involved may change > ABI depending on the instruction set in use, and therefore it would be > necessary to build larger portions of the library for each supported > CPU variant.
Do these types leak across the library boundary, to applications using the library? Florian -- devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
