Baby's First AldyVec/AltiVec patch

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Sat Dec 27 18:46:00 GMT 2003


On 27 Dec 2003 12:21:28 -0200, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Dec 27, 2003, Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 26 Dec 2003 22:04:26 -0200, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Your proposal is trying to give a well-defined syntax with a
>>>> standard semantic, a different semantic than what it means and what
>>>> people would expect it to mean. 
>>> 
>>> Except (I think) it would be semantically ill-formed, even though it
>>> would parse correctly.
>
>> Nope.  It's well-formed, just useless.
>
> Only if you think of the vector type as a type that can be converted
> to/from scalar integer types.

Good point.

Jason



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