Hi Gerald,
On Thu 2025-03-06 18:38:12, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, Filip Kastl wrote:
> > I would like to gently ping this.
>
> Ooops, sorry.
>
> > > + <li>GCC now supports generating vectorized math calls to the math
> > > library
> > > + from AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries (AOCL LibM). This option is
> > > available
> > > + through the <code>-mveclibabi=aocl</code> compiler switch. GCC
> > > continues to
> > > + support generating calls to AMD Core Math Library (ACML). However,
> > > that
> > > + library is end-of-life and AOCL offers many more vectorized
> > > functions.
> > > + </li>
>
> This is fine, though I suggest to work out a bit more clearly what the
> default is. I guess it's neither of these two, unless... ?
>
> And one specific suggestion (which you may opt to implement or not): How
> about "GCC still supports generating" to avoid having three verb forms in
> sequence (which made my head hurt a bit ;-)?
>
> Gerald
Here is a second version of the patch. Thanks for the suggestions. I
addressed them both. Do you think this is better?
Thanks,
Filip Kastl
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<code>-mavx512pf</code>, <code>-mprefetchwt1</code>,
<code>-mtune=knl</code>, and <code>-mtune=knm</code> compiler switches.
</li>
+ <li>With the <code>-mveclibabi</code> compiler switch GCC is able to generate
+ vectorized calls to external libraries. GCC 15 newly supports generating
+ vectorized math calls to the math library from AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries
+ (AOCL LibM). This option is available through
+ <code>-mveclibabi=aocl</code>. GCC still supports generating calls to AMD
+ Core Math Library (ACML). However, that library is end-of-life and AOCL
+ offers many more vectorized functions.
+ </li>
</ul>
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