llvm-6502/lib/Target/CellSPU/README.txt
Scott Michel 104de4390b CellSPU:
(a) Improve the extract element code: there's no need to do gymnastics with
    rotates into the preferred slot if a shuffle will do the same thing.
(b) Rename a couple of SPUISD pseudo-instructions for readability and better
    semantic correspondence.
(c) Fix i64 sign/any/zero extension lowering.


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//===- README.txt - Notes for improving CellSPU-specific code gen ---------===//
This code was contributed by a team from the Computer Systems Research
Department in The Aerospace Corporation:
- Scott Michel (head bottle washer and much of the non-floating point
instructions)
- Mark Thomas (floating point instructions)
- Michael AuYeung (intrinsics)
- Chandler Carruth (LLVM expertise)
- Nehal Desai (debugging, RoadRunner SPU expertise)
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR
OTHERWISE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES
OF ANY KIND OR NATURE WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE ARISING
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST OR CONTAMINATED DATA, LOST PROFITS OR
REVENUE, COMPUTER MALFUNCTION, OR FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL,
OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR
SUCH DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--WARNING--:
--WARNING--: The CellSPU work is work-in-progress and "alpha" quality code.
--WARNING--:
If you are brave enough to try this code or help to hack on it, be sure
to add 'spu' to configure's --enable-targets option, e.g.:
./configure <your_configure_flags_here> \
--enable-targets=x86,x86_64,powerpc,spu
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The unofficially official status page (because it's not easy to get an
officially blessed external web page from either IBM Austin or Aerosapce):
http://sites.google.com/site/llvmcellspu/
TODO:
* Finish branch instructions, branch prediction
These instructions were started, but only insofar as to get llvm-gcc-4.2's
crtbegin.ll working (which doesn't.)
* Double floating point support
This was started. "What's missing?" to be filled in.
* Intrinsics
Lots of progress. "What's missing/incomplete?" to be filled in.
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===