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Re: More altivec array initialisation troubles
- From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- To: Daniel Egger <degger at fhm dot edu>
- Cc: Graham Stott <grahams at redhat dot com>, GCC Developer Mailinglist <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:39:05 +1100
- Subject: Re: More altivec array initialisation troubles
>> Try casting each of the vector initialiser to vectors
>>
>> {
>> {(vector signed short){1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}},
>> {(vector signed short){11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18}},
>> ; ...
>> }
the extra {}'s make no sense. think about it. this is an
array of vectors, so you should have 4 elements like you do
below:
>
> static const vector signed short test4[4] =
> {
> (vector signed short){1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8},
> (vector signed short){11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18},
> (vector signed short){21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28},
> (vector signed short){31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38}
> };
>
> does. This should be fixed anyhow as it's fairly simple to get wrong
> and the warning is sort of confusing, not to mention that the
> behaviour is not really sensible (at least to me).
perhaps errors should be more sane though.
aldy