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Re: front end changes for altivec

From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 27 Nov 2001 18:59:35 -0600
Subject: Re: front end changes for altivec
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111270053270.4999-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk><1006874643.5176.8.camel@litecycle.cc.andrews.edu><20011127132756.A30114@redhat.com><1006898082.5178.41.camel@litecycle.cc.andrews.edu><20011127140031.E30114@redhat.com> <3C0418B1.8B56487D@apple.com> <20011127151526.A30257@redhat.com>


> 
> 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.

why can't you have sizeof((vector int))?

> 
> 
> r~
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Aldy Hernandez			E-mail: aldyh@redhat.com
Professional Gypsy
Red Hat, Inc.

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