Valarrays and [altivec] vectors (was Re: [PATCH]: Handle vector modes in genopinit.c, c-typeck.c)

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:23:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | > Can operations be applied between valarrays of different lengths?
> | 
> | Undefined behavior.  I think the current implementation formats the user's
> | hard drive.
> 
> Exact :-)

I keep forgetting to commit the autoconf tests which determine the
exact function to call in order to format the hard drive.  Right now the
formatting occurs largely by luck, but this should be standardized for 3.1,
and perhaps wrapped in a __format_hard_drive dispatcher.


> However two valarray<T>s can be be used in equality or relational
> comparaisons, the operation is componentwise and the result is a
> valarray<bool>. One can also apply directly boolean operators to
> valarray<bool>s, 

I didn't know that.  That's pretty neat.  :-)


Phil

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