Re: patch: Re: rfc: auto-casted vector types

[Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>]

> The code part of this is OK (although your mailer has word-wrapped the
> patch and I think has played with the whitespace); Zack has already
> commented on the docs.
Blame apple mail ;-).  My linux box is en-route to a tropical island.

> > +   /* FIXME: We assume V2SI is the opaque type, so we accidentally
> > +      allow inter conversion to and from V2SI modes.  We could use
> > +      V1D1, and rewrite <spe.h> accordingly.  */
> > +   return t1 == V2SI_type_node || t2 == V2SI_type_node;
> ... I was kind of hoping you could fix this.  It's the sort of thing
> that becomes increasingly hard to fix over time, because people start
> to write code that (perhaps unknowingly) depends on it.
>
> It could be fixed by having a separate opaque_type_node which has the
> same contents as *V2SI_type_node but a different address.
Tell you what, I'll do it tomorrow, as I'm knee deep in another patch.  
OK? :-)

Aldy