Re: [PATCH], Patch #7, Add PowerPC vector initialization tests

[Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 03:29:50PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> These patches add more tests to the PowerPC vector initialization tests.  Four
> of the tests added (#4, #5, #8, and #9) just try to do a bunch of vector
> initializations for the different vector type (char, short, float, and double).
> 
> These other patches (#6, #7) test the code generated in paches #5 and #6.
> 
> I have run tese tests on a big endian power7 system (with both 32-bt and 64-bit
> tests runs), a big endian power8 system (just 64-bit tests), and a little
> endian power8 system.  There were no regressions.  As these tests ok to
> install?

This is okay for trunk; one comment:

> +/* { dg-final { scan-assembler     "mtvsrd" } } */

This also matches mtvsrdd; if you don't want that, you can avoid it by
writing it as {\mmtvsrd\M} (the {} instead of "" to avoid toothpickeritus).

Thanks,


Segher