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Restore MMX support #369

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fw-immunant opened this issue Feb 15, 2022 · 0 comments
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Restore MMX support #369

fw-immunant opened this issue Feb 15, 2022 · 0 comments
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We're going to drop MMX support due to the straightforward translation becoming impossible as upstream has also dropped support for these types (e.g. __m64) and intrinsics.

This isn't likely to be disruptive to most users, even of SIMD, because MMX is quite old and generally superseded by newer instruction set extensions. In addition, most C programs with explicit SIMD have it hidden behind architecture-specific #ifdefs, and those programs can still be translated by configuring away the MMX.

If there's demand from users that really need to translate C programs containing explicit MMX intrinsics and types, we can investigate other possible ways to expose these. In the meantime, this issue can serve to gauge interest and document the current situation.

fw-immunant added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 13, 2022
this follows upstream dropping support; see #369
@kkysen kkysen added the enhancement New feature or request label Jun 17, 2022
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