altivec still broken?!

[Ziemowit Laski]

I suspect we may be in need of a target hook :-) for VECTOR_TYPE 
comparison, since it appears that SPE and AltiVec (not to mention 
MMX/SSE) may require different semantics in this regard.  A 
one-size-fits-all approach for vectors may not be feasible.

My 2 zlotys,

--Zem

On 29 Apr 2004, at 10.02, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> I actually found a bug that is solved in my implementation of 
> comptypes.  It is a contrived example and it is in C++, but is indeed 
> a bug.
>
> 1  template <class T> class X {
> 2  };
> 3
> 4  template <> class X<__ev64_opaque__> {
> 5  };
> 6
> 7  typedef int v2si __attribute__ ((vector_size (8)));
> 8
> 9  template <> class X<v2si> {
> 10 };
>
> With my patch, this compiles.  With rth's proposed resolution
> of comptypes for vector types, instead it gives a wrong error
>
> /home/utente/aaa.c:9: error: redefinition of `class X<int __vector__>'
> /home/utente/aaa.c:4: error: previous definition of `class X<int 
> __vector__>'
>
> Paolo
>
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