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Re: [patch 2/6] scalar-storage-order merge: C front-end
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at foss dot arm dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:08:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] scalar-storage-order merge: C front-end
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> A very cursory glance at the patch set but should we restrict this
> attribute to apply only to scalar types rather than allow them on vector
> extensions. I haven't had enough coffee this morning but a first
> thought is that if it does apply on vector type extensions, clarifying
> the lane ordering up front would be helpful especially as we now allow
> indexing into short vectors.
That's reasonable, and the name would sort of imply it, although the current
implementation doesn't do that (but wasn't really tested with vector types).
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Eric Botcazou