towards reduction part 3/n: what does vec lower pass do to vector shifts?

[Richard Henderson]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 08:00:22PM +0300, Dorit Naishlos wrote:
> Altivec does support non immediate shift amount (even if less efficiently -
> I have to put the shift amount in a vector register first). But since we
> have defined these optabs to represent shift operations that take immediate
> shift amount, I shouldn't be returning vec_shli/vec_shri if the shift is
> not constant.

I think this is a bit silly; unless we have a good reason I don't think
we should define different optabs for constant/non-constant shift counts.


r~