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Re: recent troubles with float vectors & bitwise ops

From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, bonzini at gnu dot org, tbp <tbptbp at gmail dot com>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:46:16 +0100
Subject: Re: recent troubles with float vectors & bitwise ops
References: <46CBC2E1.1010100@gmail.com> <46CD5FCB.1010806@lu.unisi.ch> <m3lkc26zt0.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

> There seem to be solid reasons to permit this, and no very strong ones
> to prohibit it.  We can consider it to be a GNU extension for vectors.
> Vectors are of course themselves an extension already.

How are you suggesting it be implemented?

Will the front/middle-end convert it to (vNsf)((vNsi)a | (vNsi)b), or do all 
vector backends need to lie about having float vector bitwise operations?

Paul

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