Re: patch: vector register arguments

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:48:38PM -0500, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> Without wider mode information, gcc is unable to determine how to
> store a given vector register if the narrowest vector mode (V2SF or
> V2QI) does not exist in the given target.  Gcc will try to iterate to
> get a wider mode, and unable to find one that fits, aborts.

I don't think it makes sense to have wider mode for vectors.
What does that mean, exactly?  If it just means "here's a way
to iterate over the lot of them", then I think that should be
clearly documented somewhere.


r~