[RFC/RFT] Tree-level lowering of generic vectors (take 2)

[Janis Johnson]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:55:27PM -0700, Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:29:45PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> > And here's the patch.
> 
> There are no documentation changes and no new tests.  The current
> information about generic vectors in the GCC Manual is fairly sparse and
> hard to find; it's mixed in with information about hardware vector
> support in "5.42 Using vector instructions through built-in functions".
> This would be a good time to flesh it out.

Christine Lorenz is a technical writer from IBM who is planning to help
clean up the user-level documentation about vector types.  She'll need
information about how vectors are expected to work.  I've copied her on
this message so she'll see follow-ups.

Janis