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Re: front end changes for altivec
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:50:22PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > Absolutely not. No machine dependant defaults. You can't take
> > that source to another machine.
>
> You mean like how we don't have machine-dependent sizes for int
> and long int?
Exactly! All the world's a VAX! ;-)
Except that I think this is much worse. At least for "int" you
have sizeof, INT_MAX, CHAR_BITS etc to determine the nature of
the type on the machine. I think we can do better for vectors.
r~