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An Extended ANSI C for Multimedia Processing

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This paper presents the Multimedia C language, which is appropriate for the multimedia extensions included in all modern microprocessors. The paper discusses the language syntax, the implementation of its compiler and its use in developing multimedia applications. The goal was to provide programmers with the most natural way of using multimedia processing facilities in the C language.

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  1. Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Trzaska cesta 25, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Patricio Bulić, Veselko Gustin & Ljubo Pipan

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    Victor E. Malyshkin

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Bulić, P., Gustin, V., Pipan, L. (2003). An Extended ANSI C for Multimedia Processing. In: Malyshkin, V.E. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2763. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45145-7_40

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