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Re: front end changes for altivec

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:50:22PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > Absolutely not.  No machine dependant defaults.  You can't take
> > that source to another machine.
> 
> You mean like how we don't have machine-dependent sizes for int
> and long int?

Exactly!  All the world's a VAX!  ;-)  

Except that I think this is much worse.  At least for "int" you
have sizeof, INT_MAX, CHAR_BITS etc to determine the nature of
the type on the machine.  I think we can do better for vectors.


r~
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