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Re: VIS2 pattern review
From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:41:42 +0200
>> Unfortunately, that would involve some ABI changes for the VIS
>> builtins. I'm trending towards considering just changing things
>> anyways since the VIS intrinsics were next to unusable beforehand.
>
> Could you elaborate? The calling conventions for vectors (like for the other
> classes) shouldn't depend on the mode but only on the type.
Right and as Richard said I can munge the modes during expansion of
existing builtins when needed.