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Re: altivec predicates
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Daniel Berlin <dan at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 22:22:50 -0500
- Subject: Re: altivec predicates
>>>>> Daniel Berlin writes:
Daniel> Because they have to have a type when declared to the frontend, and the
Daniel> type gets checked before we get a chance at the function.
What is "they"? You mean the builtin needs to be prototyped so
that the arguments match the builtin?
Daniel> Remember, C has no overloading, so we can't declare multiple
Daniel> builtin_altivec_predicate functions, for all possible sets of types.
I wasn't implying overloading.
David