Altivec discussion summary, future direction

[Zack Weinberg]

Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> writes:

> FWIW, I agree with Geoff's future direction comments.  1, 3, and 5
> I'm ok with.  #1, I'm not particularly fond of, but I won't object.
> Everything else (comma initializers, and context sensitive keywords)
> I don't like at all.

Agreement.

> WRT the comma initializer discussion, it was my understanding that Motorola
> had added the curly brace initializer to the PIM, in addition to the
> brain dead comma initializer scheme-- and that other compiler vendors
> were moving towards the curly brace implementation. 

This was also my understanding.

zw