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Re: A Far Less Ambitous AltiVec patch



So you're saying I should create stand-alone "mixin" types like 'pixel' and 'unsigned bool'? It seems a bit weird, since these types are not really meaningful outside of a VECTOR_TYPE, but I guess that's not a big issue...

No, it's not. That's just a weirdness of the AltiVec situation -- they chose not to make those types orthogonal, largely for implementation reasons.

So, I'm still left with the problem of mangling 'pixel' and 'unsigned bool' -- how should I do it without creating a target hook? :-)

It's OK to create a target hook to mangle target-specific scalar types.

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