common tree nodes question

[Aldy Hernandez]

On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 05:48  PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:26:26PM +1100, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
>> 	* dwarf2out.c (modified_type_die): Do not call type_main_variant
>> 	for vectors.
>> 	(gen_type_die): Same.
>>
>> 	* attribs.c (handle_vector_size_attribute): Set debug information.
>
> This is ok.  Not ideal, but ok.

me wonders if it would've just been easier to create a proper vector
keyword/type that would work just like the vector_size attribute.

i hardly think all this hassle is worth the trouble.  every where
we look there are corner cases unaccounted for that require tweaking.

...and can we keep using __attribute__((vector_size(blah))) forever?
i mean, eventually we'll want auto-vectorization and all sorts of things.
i can't see this thing scaling well.

oh well, committing.

from vector hell,
aldy[]