[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ARMv8: Use built-in data types for unsupported poly64/128 types for GCC version lower than 4.9.0.

[Jerin Jacob]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:50:19 +0800
> From: Herbert Guan <herbert.guan at arm.com>
> To: dev at dpdk.org, jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com, jianbo.liu at linaro.org
> CC: Herbert Guan <herbert.guan at arm.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] ARMv8: Use built-in data types for unsupported poly64/128
>  types for GCC version lower than 4.9.0.
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1
> 
> Fixes: 3c4b4024c2 (arch/arm: add vcopyq_laneq_u32 for old gcc)

Fix the check-git-log.sh warning. You could start the commit with
eal/armv8:

With check-git-log.sh fix:
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>

[master][dpdk.org] $ ./devtools/check-git-log.sh 
Wrong headline format:
	ARMv8: Use built-in data types for unsupported poly64/128 types for GCC version lower than 4.9.0.
Wrong headline uppercase:
	ARMv8: Use built-in data types for unsupported poly64/128 types for GCC version lower than 4.9.0.
Headline too long:
	ARMv8: Use built-in data types for unsupported poly64/128 types for GCC version lower than 4.9.0.



> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Guan <herbert.guan at arm.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/rte_vect.h | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/rte_vect.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/rte_vect.h
> index 7fec25e..782350d 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/rte_vect.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/rte_vect.h
> @@ -101,6 +101,13 @@
>  
>  #if defined(RTE_ARCH_ARM64)
>  #if defined(RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC) && (GCC_VERSION < 70000)
> +
> +#if (GCC_VERSION < 40900)
> +typedef uint64_t poly64_t;
> +typedef uint64x2_t poly64x2_t;
> +typedef uint8_t poly128_t __attribute__((vector_size(16), aligned(16)));
> +#endif
> +
>  /* NEON intrinsic vreinterpretq_u64_p128() is supported since GCC version 7 */
>  static inline uint64x2_t
>  vreinterpretq_u64_p128(poly128_t x)
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
>