Spec for the ‘locality’ parameter to the LDC and GDC builtin magic functions for accessing special CPU prefetch instructions

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Saturday, 19 August 2023 at 19:23:38 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
>
> I’m trying to write a cross-platform function that gives access 
> to the CPU’s prefetch instructions such as x86 
> prefetch0/1/2/prefetchnta and AAarch64 too. I’ve found that the 
> GDC and LDC compilers provide builtin magic functions for this, 
> and are what I need. I am trying to put together a 
> plain-English detailed spec for the respective builtin magic 
> functions.
>

Have you found that?

https://github.com/AuburnSounds/intel-intrinsics/blob/002da84215a58f098cee671c5ba4ab6052613865/source/inteli/xmmintrin.d#L1935C9-L1935C9