More altivec array initialisation troubles

[Daniel Egger]

Am Fre, 2002-02-22 um 18.41 schrieb Stan Shebs:

> > static const vector signed short test4[4] =
> > {
> >     {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8},
> >     {11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18},
> >     {21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28},
> >     {31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38}
> > };
 
> This is not how compound literals work, you need the types to
> cast to.

That's the way the motorola modifications to altivec work but it
doesn't necessarily make sense. It's fairly obvious to
write 
static const vector signed short test = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8};
and thus as a special case the array above.

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel