On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Bill Schmidt wrote: > Yes, sorry for not being more clear. This is indeed for interpretation > of element numbers in Altivec intrinsics such as vec_splat, vec_extract, > vec_insert, and so forth. By default these will match array element > order for the target endianness. But with -maltivec=be for a little > endian target, we will force use of big-endian element order (matching > the behavior of the underlying hardware instructions).
Thanks for the explanation. I think you should make the .texi documentation say something more like this. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
