topic Where to find the latest Altivec Technology, Programming Interface Manual? in P-Series https://community.nxp.com/t5/P-Series/Where-to-find-the-latest-Altivec-Technology-Programming/m-p/335960#M1522 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I am looking for a good starting point for writing Altivec Code for the e6500 (T2080/T4240).</P><P></P><P>The programming interface manual is dated from 6/1999</P><P><A href="http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf" title="http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf">http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf</A></P><P>Is it the latest document?</P><P></P><P>Actually I tried <EM>vec_malloc()</EM>, which seems to have no C prototype.</P><P>I can give more details, it desired.</P><P></P><P>best regards</P><P>Alois</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:00:58 GMT aloishahn 2014-09-22T14:00:58Z Where to find the latest Altivec Technology, Programming Interface Manual? https://community.nxp.com/t5/P-Series/Where-to-find-the-latest-Altivec-Technology-Programming/m-p/335960#M1522 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I am looking for a good starting point for writing Altivec Code for the e6500 (T2080/T4240).</P><P></P><P>The programming interface manual is dated from 6/1999</P><P><A href="http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf" title="http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf">http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf</A></P><P>Is it the latest document?</P><P></P><P>Actually I tried <EM>vec_malloc()</EM>, which seems to have no C prototype.</P><P>I can give more details, it desired.</P><P></P><P>best regards</P><P>Alois</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:00:58 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/P-Series/Where-to-find-the-latest-Altivec-Technology-Programming/m-p/335960#M1522 aloishahn 2014-09-22T14:00:58Z Re: Where to find the latest Altivec Technology, Programming Interface Manual? https://community.nxp.com/t5/P-Series/Where-to-find-the-latest-Altivec-Technology-Programming/m-p/335961#M1523 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The most recent version of "AltiVec Technology Programming Instructions Manual for Power ISA Processors" (ALTIVECPOWERISAPIM.pdf) is preliminary and not published yet.</P><P>If you wish to get preliminary version of this document, please contact your local Freescale representative.</P><P></P><P>Looking to this document, I see the vec_malloc() is somehow mentioned in Section 3.5, but there is no changes in this section, this section is exactly the same as in old <SPAN style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">ALTIVECPIM.pdf (</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">6/1999)</SPAN>.</P><P></P><P>If the function have no prototype this means you have some library missing.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:23:24 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/P-Series/Where-to-find-the-latest-Altivec-Technology-Programming/m-p/335961#M1523 alexander_yakov 2014-09-23T02:23:24Z