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Re: Documentation of the vDSP



> Vincent Hottier <email@hidden> asked:
> Lots of functions of the vDSP library, which are declared in the 
> vDSP.h file, are not documented (except in this header) in the 
> vDSP_Library.pdf documentation that ships with the Developer Package 
> (Panther). This PDF file seems to be actually outdated if I read the 
> vDSP.h. Is there anywhere an up-to-date documentation about the 
> functions of the vDSP library ?

I don't think there is any apart from the errata page:

	http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/errata.html

Largely the API hasn't changed since MacOS 9 for that segment of 
vecLib. The major difference is that it is now part of 
Accelerate.framework, and you need to link using:

	-framework Accelerate

There have been some additions. We added a bunch of double precision 
variants on the old single precision APIs in MacOS X.2. They work just 
the same as the single precision variants, except that they are not 
vectorized. (Altivec doesn't do double precision.) In MacOS X.3 (and 
the version of MacOS X.2 that shipped with the first G5s), some of the 
back ends were retuned for G5, but this had no effect on the front end 
API, except as noted in the errata.

Ian
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