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Re: ia64 XFmode patch rides again (need ia64-linux testing)

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:00:14PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> A mechanism for handling attribute ((mode (foo))) where foo is not a
> known machine mode would also be useful in the context of vectors.

No, it wouldn't.  I would like to severely deprecate using attribute
mode for vectors.  Better is to use attribute vector_size and not
fool around with magic mode names in the first place.



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