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Re: broken arithmetic operations on vectors (c and c++)
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:29:28 -0700, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Jason Merrill wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:25:14 -0400, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In keeping with the C front end, I think we should allow arithmetic
>>>between same type vectors with different signs. I tried to use comptypes,
>>>and a few other functions to no avail. The easiest thing I could think
>>>of was using the mode. Is this correct?
>> It seems like a bit of a kludge, but probably fine.
>
> I don't think this is correct.
>
> I think we should be checking that we need a predicate for
> same_type_ignoring_signedness. That's not hard to implement.
>
> Any time we're looking at TYPE_MODE in a front end, we're being lazy, at
> best.
That was my initial reaction, too, but then I thought that the types are
specified using modes, so I wasn't sure whether multiple vectors of the
same mode would have the same type... But that does seem like a good
invariant, and it also seems that make_vector_type does commonize the
vector types properly.
So yes, I agree with Mark.
Jason