generic vectors: how should they work?

[James E Wilson]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 13:40, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	Honza submitted a patch to implement additional init/set/extract
> expanders, but the second patch never was reviewed.
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg00050.html

That is an x86 backend patch, which doesn't help a mips user much.  I
was looking for front-end/middle changes to add syntax that would
translate into vec_init/vec_set/vec_extract calls.  We have the
constructor syntax that turns into vec_init, but we have no syntax that
turns into vec_set or vec_extract.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com