Re: [AD] Allegro on icc

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On February 29, 2004 08:16 am, aj wrote:
> >I'm leaning towards rejecting such a patch on the ground that it is
> > perfectly correct and we should not try to endorse the unacceptable
> > behaviour of ICC.
>
> can we ignore ICC based on politics, if so, maybe we should be rejecting
> other compilers inconsistencies.
> given that ICC is "apperently" a good compiler that produces some of the
> fastest code on i586 it should be supported.
> can allegros __asm  be written as 'C' code ?     is the reason for any asm
> at all, so that MMX/SSE code can be written ?
> ICC supports intrinsics for MMX/SSE in a 'C' like format.

Hmm, GCC does as well. :) look to the "C Extensions" -> "Vector Extensions" 
section.

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