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Re: front end changes for altivec

Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:54:42PM -0600, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> > not good, because we have "vector int" (V4SI), "vector short" (V8HI),
> > "vector char" (V16QI), etc.  we can't just define "__vector" to expand
> > to a given vector size because that depends on the type being vectored.
> 
> How about __vector_size__(16) then?
> 
> > and then have a default for the given backend+target_switches...
> 
> Absolutely not.  No machine dependant defaults.  You can't take
> that source to another machine.

You mean like how we don't have machine-dependent sizes for int
and long int?

:-)

Stan
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