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Re: (C++) mangling vector types
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Jason Merrill wrote:
>
>> It isn't such a corner case, unfortunately; any code that tries to
>> overload on multiple vector sizes (i.e. MMX and SSE vectors) will break.
>> ?See bug 12909 and its duplicates. ?This is becoming more of a problem
>> with the advent of the Intel AVX extension.
>
> This still seems a lot of complexity to me, and I still think inserting
> a new version between 2 and 3 is odd. ?If we need the complexity, I
> think we have to introduce a new orthogonal option for vector mangling,
> independent of the ABI version, but implied by ABI version > 4.
How is mangling orthogonal to the ABI?
-- Gaby