Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-07-18 Thread Tejas Belagod
Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On 18 July 2013 16:54, Tejas Belagod wrote: I'd like to follow up this thread to move towards removing arm_neon.h's dependence on stdint.h. My comments inline below. As far as I can tell, the only dependency arm_neon.h has on the contents of that header are the [u]int[8|

Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-07-18 Thread David Brown
On 18/07/13 17:22, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 18 July 2013 16:54, Tejas Belagod wrote: >> I'd like to follow up this thread to move towards removing arm_neon.h's >> dependence on stdint.h. My comments inline below. >> >>> As far as I can tell, the only dependency arm_neon.h has on the >>> contents

Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-07-18 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 18 July 2013 16:54, Tejas Belagod wrote: > I'd like to follow up this thread to move towards removing arm_neon.h's > dependence on stdint.h. My comments inline below. > >> As far as I can tell, the only dependency arm_neon.h has on the >> contents of that header are the [u]int[8|16|32|64]_t typ

Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-07-18 Thread Tejas Belagod
Hi Ard, I'd like to follow up this thread to move towards removing arm_neon.h's dependence on stdint.h. My comments inline below. From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:32 AM Subject: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Cc: Christophe Lyon

Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-05-21 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 21 May 2013 18:22, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2013, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> I am currently exploring various ways of using NEON instructions in >> kernel mode. One of the ways of doing so is using NEON intrinsics, >> which we would like to support in the kernel, but unfortunatel

Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-05-21 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > I am currently exploring various ways of using NEON instructions in > kernel mode. One of the ways of doing so is using NEON intrinsics, > which we would like to support in the kernel, but unfortunately, at > the moment we can't because the support head

Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-05-21 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 21 May 2013 11:43, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > Why don't you add a (maybe cut-down) stdint.h to the kernel. It seems > bizarre to me that the kernel is trying to provide standard types through a > non-standard interface. > There have been heated debates going on for years about these things. Q

Re: ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-05-21 Thread Richard Earnshaw
On 21/05/13 10:32, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: Hello all, I am currently exploring various ways of using NEON instructions in kernel mode. One of the ways of doing so is using NEON intrinsics, which we would like to support in the kernel, but unfortunately, at the moment we can't because the support h

ARM/AAarch64: NEON intrinsics in the kernel

2013-05-21 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Hello all, I am currently exploring various ways of using NEON instructions in kernel mode. One of the ways of doing so is using NEON intrinsics, which we would like to support in the kernel, but unfortunately, at the moment we can't because the support header arm_neon.h assumes C99 conformance an