rs6000.md/altivec.md problem in setting of vector registers

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:38:24PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> GCC commits to an poor instruction selection choice and it's downhill from
> there.  It probably would be better to fix vector initialization, or at
> least improve the current hack, instead of trying to change register
> allocator behavior.

See the vec_set<mode> and vec_extract<mode> patterns that Jan added.


r~