A couple of patches that I’ve noticed on various mailing lists –<\/p>\n
libspe<\/a> – Some small changes, but includes spe_image_open_library() to load an spe image from a ppe shared library.<\/p>\n binutils<\/a> – “Also, if DLL’s were supported on SPU…”\u00a0 Interesting idea – will have to wait to see what comes of it.<\/p>\n gcc<\/a> – Support non-constants as the second argument of \t__builtin_expect.\u00a0 Interesting idea.<\/p>\n (Also, Revital Eres’s function partitioning patch<\/a> has had some activity, and there’s the odd patch<\/a> from Alan Modra on overlays and software icache.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of patches that I’ve noticed on various mailing lists – libspe – Some small changes, but includes spe_image_open_library() to load an spe image from a ppe shared library. binutils – “Also, if DLL’s were supported on SPU…”\u00a0 Interesting idea – will have to wait to see what comes of it. gcc – Support … Continue reading “Some recent SPU toolchain patches”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}