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[committed] Update wwwdocs for PR target/47272 fixes (altivec vec_ld/vec_st builtins)

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Gerald Pfeifer Oct. 30, 2011, 12:56 p.m. UTC 
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Michael Meissner wrote:
> After updating the mainline and 4.5 trees with the fix for PR 
> target/47272 that restores vec_ld and vec_st to generate only Altivec 
> memory instructions, I added the following to the documentation:

Here are some minor editorial changes I applied on top of this.

(Note, re "On Power7 systems, there is a potential problem" I am
not sure it is clear to users what steps they need to take?)

Gerald
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Index: gcc-4.5/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.102
diff -u -r1.102 changes.html
--- gcc-4.5/changes.html	29 Oct 2011 19:51:21 -0000	1.102
+++ gcc-4.5/changes.html	30 Oct 2011 12:53:23 -0000
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ 
 complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed
 are not listed here).</p>
 
-<p>On the PowerPC compiler, the altivec builtin functions <code>vec_ld</code>
+<p>On the PowerPC compiler, the Altivec builtin functions <code>vec_ld</code>
 and <code>vec_st</code> have been modified to generate the Altivec memory
 instructions <code>LVX</code> and <code>STVX</code>, even if the
 <code>-mvsx</code> option is used.  In the initial GCC 4.5 release, these
Index: gcc-4.6/changes.html
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diff -u -r1.135 changes.html
--- gcc-4.6/changes.html	29 Oct 2011 19:02:39 -0000	1.135
+++ gcc-4.6/changes.html	30 Oct 2011 12:53:24 -0000
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ 
       for <code>MODEL</code>
       are <code>small</code>, <code>medium</code>,
       or <code>large</code>.</li>
-    <li>The altivec builtin functions <code>vec_ld</code> and <code>vec_st</code>
+    <li>The Altivec builtin functions <code>vec_ld</code> and <code>vec_st</code>
       have been modified to generate the Altivec memory instructions
       <code>LVX</code> and <code>STVX</code>, even if the <code>-mvsx</code>
       option is used.  In the initial GCC 4.5 release, these builtin functions
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ 
 
     <li>
     On Power7 systems, there is a potential problem if you build the GCC
-    compiler with a host compiler using options that enables the VSX
+    compiler with a host compiler using options that enable the VSX
     instruction set generation.  If the host compiler has been patched so that
     the <code>vec_ld</code> and <code>vec_st</code> builtin functions
     generate Altivec memory instructions instead of VSX memory instructions,