AltiVec [RFH] Overload resolution of vec_subs intrinsic fails
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Tue Apr 13 13:13:00 GMT 2004
> > What I do not understand is if the treatment of opaque types in my patch
goes
> > against comptypes' definition of compatibility as in "same type-ness".
>
> Because opaque types have absolutely nothing to do with altivec.
> Altivec doesn't have opaque types.
That's also mixing issues. As part of sorting out Altivec, is it ok to sort
out (the way I suggested it) the handling of *SPE* opaque types in comptypes?
It does not change behavior; the SPE tests pass.
> I also don't see how you can implement this overloading business with
> just opaque types and back-end magic. But I am willing to review such
> patch.
I could try if somebody volunteers to help with testing.
Paolo
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