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Re: PR 8878
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 24 Jul 2003 10:22:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: PR 8878
- References: <200307232306.h6NN6A7F029904@doubledemon.codesourcery.com> <20030724171741.GA20155@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:17, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:06:10PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > Aldy --
> >
> > Last week, you indicated that you would try to get a patch for PR 8878
> > on the 3.3 branch. (This is a regression with SIMD stuff on x86.)
> >
> > What is the status of that?
>
> Oops, sorry, long week. Working on it right now.
>
> I have found the patch that fixes the problem on 3.3, and I am running
> tests.
>
> The patch adds a whole bunch of PPC specific code which I will leave
> out of the backport since they are just optimizations, and I don't want
> to make such changes this late in the game.
>
> Mark, can I assume the follwing patch is OK to backport to 3.3?
>
> Also, I will be changing the date on the patch below, since it was
> really committed on the 1st of April.
>
> Aldy
>
> 2003-02-31 Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
>
> * testsuite/gcc.c-torture/execute/simd-3.c: New.
>
> * expr.c (expand_expr): Handle VECTOR_CST.
> (const_vector_from_tree): New.
>
> * varasm.c (output_constant): Handle VECTOR_CST.
>
> * c-typeck.c (digest_init): Build a vector constant from a
> VECTOR_TYPE.
I assume you're just talking about backporting these hunks, right?
That's fine!
Thanks,
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark@codesourcery.com