Re: RFA: Consider int and same-size short as equivalent vector components

[Marc Glisse <marc dot glisse at inria dot fr>]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Joern Rennecke wrote:

> Quoting Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr>:
>
> > The issue seems larger than just short/int. On x86, (l<l)<l fails to
> > compile for a vector of long, with l<l that has opaque type vector of
> > int, that seems wrong.
>
> I don't understand what you mean here.  Could you post the actual code 
> sample?

typedef long vl __attribute__((vector_size(16)));

void f(vl l){
  (l<l)<l;
}

it compiles fine on x86_64 but not on x86.
(btw, my sentence was ambiguous, what I find wrong is the failure to 
compile, not the type of l<l)

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Marc Glisse