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Re: [ARM] ARM NEON support part 2/7: NEON support


Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On 7/16/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> I've looked at the other back-end changes and I think they qualify as
>> simple enough.
> 
> I looked at the back-end changes too but I will note that we have a
> generic vector issue with mangling anyways and really should be fixing
> that issue generically.

I agree that it makes sense to have a generic vector mangling for
targets which do not provide a mangling of their own.

> And the implementation above only works for the builtin types that the
> ARM back-end provides and not the attribute vector_size based ones.
> 
> So even you cannot intermix the generic vectors with the builtin types
> which seems wrong.

My understanding is that this is intentional, but Julian or Paul will
have to comment.  In any case, that's an ARM back-end issue.

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