On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 22:40, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 5:33 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 21:25, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 1:26 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > I already sent the following to Jeffrey 8 hours ago (off-list, because > > > > I could only send HTML mail at the time): > > > > > > > > "Those are the docs for GCC trunk. That function is not listed in the > > > > docs for GCC 7." > > > > > > GCC tells me it supports the load by accepting -mcpu=power9 and > > > defining _ARCH_PWR9. > > > > > > The problems with GCC seem to be a little larger then inaccurate docs. > > > > What? You're talking nonsense. > > > > You said: > > "According to the GCC docs vec_xl_be is available with ISA 3.0: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-AltiVec-Built-in-Functions-Available-on-ISA-3_002e0.html > > " > > > > You are consulting the docs for GCC trunk and assuming they apply to > > GCC 7. That's simply wrong. > > The docs don't list an "applies to" or "since". We asked for that > about 5 years ago. They do actually. Not on every page, but they do, as I quoted in another email a few minutes ago. It says the docs apply to GCC 10.0.0, so not the version you're using. If you want to ask for improvements to the docs then file it in bugzilla. Complaining on the mailing list doesn't achieve much. > > Here is the link returned for a search of "GCC vec_xl_be". There is no > mention of GCC 10.0 or limitations on availability: > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-AltiVec-Built-in-Functions-Available-on-ISA-3_002e0.html > > Like I said, you don't understand how search works and how users use it. > > Jeff
