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| <h4 class="subsection">6.57.15 MIPS Paired-Single Support</h4> |
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| <p>The MIPS64 architecture includes a number of instructions that |
| operate on pairs of single-precision floating-point values. |
| Each pair is packed into a 64-bit floating-point register, |
| with one element being designated the “upper half” and |
| the other being designated the “lower half”. |
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| <p>GCC supports paired-single operations using both the generic |
| vector extensions (see <a href="Vector-Extensions.html#Vector-Extensions">Vector Extensions</a>) and a collection of |
| MIPS-specific built-in functions. Both kinds of support are |
| enabled by the <samp>-mpaired-single</samp> command-line option. |
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| <p>The vector type associated with paired-single values is usually |
| called <code>v2sf</code>. It can be defined in C as follows: |
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| v2sf b; |
| float e, f; |
| b = (v2sf) {e, f}; |
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| <p><em>Note:</em> The CPU’s endianness determines which value is stored in |
| the upper half of a register and which value is stored in the lower half. |
| On little-endian targets, the first value is the lower one and the second |
| value is the upper one. The opposite order applies to big-endian targets. |
| For example, the code above sets the lower half of <code>a</code> to |
| <code>1.5</code> on little-endian targets and <code>9.1</code> on big-endian targets. |
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