x86_64: Utilize vector math functions w/o -fopenmp
Commit Message
> This shorter patch is OK with spaces added between __attribute__ and '(',
> and between __simd__ and '('.
May be such mention in NEWS also needed for this update?
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WBR,
Andrew
Comments
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Andrew Senkevich wrote:
> > This shorter patch is OK with spaces added between __attribute__ and '(',
> > and between __simd__ and '('.
>
> May be such mention in NEWS also needed for this update?
I'll leave NEWS entry review to the release manager.
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ Version 2.23
C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
+* Vector math library can be used with GCC 6.* w/o OpenMP SIMD constructs.
+ -ftree-loop-vectorize needed instead of -fopenmp in this case (visit
+ <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information).
+
Security related changes:
* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage