Re: patch: convert scalar literals to vector constants (PR/7277)

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:38:54PM -0400, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> How about:?
> 
>       if (INTVAL (x) < 0)
>         cst[1] = (unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) -1;

That's the normal way to do things, yes.

> Hadn't thought of that.  What do you suggest gets generated for this?:

I suggest that we actually lay out the bytes as they would
be seen in the target's memory, and then read it back in
piece-wise.

For the FP bits you use real_from_target to generate the
REAL_VALUE_TYPE from the bits.


r~