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Issue 282933003: PNaCl documentation: improve some of the SIMD documentation. (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
Patch Set: Created 6 years, 7 months ago
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3 <section id="nacl-and-pnacl"> 3 <section id="nacl-and-pnacl">
4 <span id="id1"></span><h1 id="nacl-and-pnacl"><span id="id1"></span>NaCl and PNa Cl</h1> 4 <span id="id1"></span><h1 id="nacl-and-pnacl"><span id="id1"></span>NaCl and PNa Cl</h1>
5 <p>This document describes the differences between <strong>Native Client</strong > and 5 <p>This document describes the differences between <strong>Native Client</strong > and
6 <strong>Portable Native Client</strong>, and provides recommendations for when t o use each.</p> 6 <strong>Portable Native Client</strong>, and provides recommendations for when t o use each.</p>
7 <div class="contents local" id="contents" style="display: none"> 7 <div class="contents local" id="contents" style="display: none">
8 <ul class="small-gap"> 8 <ul class="small-gap">
9 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#native-client-nacl" id="id3">Native Cli ent (NaCl)</a></li> 9 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#native-client-nacl" id="id3">Native Cli ent (NaCl)</a></li>
10 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#portable-native-client-pnacl" id="id4"> Portable Native Client (PNaCl)</a></li> 10 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#portable-native-client-pnacl" id="id4"> Portable Native Client (PNaCl)</a></li>
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86 conveniences of PNaCl, such as not having to explicitly compile your application 86 conveniences of PNaCl, such as not having to explicitly compile your application
87 for all supported architectures.</p> 87 for all supported architectures.</p>
88 </section><section id="when-to-use-nacl"> 88 </section><section id="when-to-use-nacl">
89 <span id="id2"></span><h2 id="when-to-use-nacl"><span id="id2"></span>When to us e NaCl</h2> 89 <span id="id2"></span><h2 id="when-to-use-nacl"><span id="id2"></span>When to us e NaCl</h2>
90 <p>The limitations below apply to the current release of PNaCl. If any of 90 <p>The limitations below apply to the current release of PNaCl. If any of
91 these limitations are critical for your application, you should use 91 these limitations are critical for your application, you should use
92 non-portable NaCl:</p> 92 non-portable NaCl:</p>
93 <ul class="small-gap"> 93 <ul class="small-gap">
94 <li>By its nature, PNaCl does not support architecture-specific 94 <li>By its nature, PNaCl does not support architecture-specific
95 instructions in an application (i.e., inline assembly), but tries to 95 instructions in an application (i.e., inline assembly), but tries to
96 offer high-performance portable equivalents.</li> 96 offer high-performance portable equivalents. One such example is
97 PNaCl&#8217;s <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/reference/pnacl -c-cpp-language-support.html#portable-simd-vectors"><em>Portable SIMD Vectors</e m></a>.</li>
97 <li>Currently PNaCl only supports static linking with the <code>newlib</code> 98 <li>Currently PNaCl only supports static linking with the <code>newlib</code>
98 C standard library (the Native Client SDK provides a PNaCl port of 99 C standard library (the Native Client SDK provides a PNaCl port of
99 <code>newlib</code>). Dynamic linking and <code>glibc</code> are not yet support ed. 100 <code>newlib</code>). Dynamic linking and <code>glibc</code> are not yet support ed.
100 Work is under way to enable dynamic linking in future versions of PNaCl.</li> 101 Work is under way to enable dynamic linking in future versions of PNaCl.</li>
101 <li>In the initial release, PNaCl does not support some GNU extensions 102 <li>In the initial release, PNaCl does not support some GNU extensions
102 like taking the address of a label for computed <code>goto</code>, or nested 103 like taking the address of a label for computed <code>goto</code>, or nested
103 functions.</li> 104 functions.</li>
104 </ul> 105 </ul>
105 </section></section> 106 </section></section>
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