Even stricter implicit conversions between vectors

Mark Shinwell shinwell@codesourcery.com
Thu Nov 2 14:46:00 GMT 2006


Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> Assuming I understand the proposal properly, this sounds to me like 
>>>> it amounts reversing the change  we experienced in the Apple GCC 
>>>> from 3.3 -> 4.0.  Type checking became a lot more lax for us in 4.0.
>>>
>>> This was a bug and has been fixed recently.  I cannot recall if the 
>>> fix has been backported all the way up to 4.0.
>>
>> Which fix are you thinking of here?  My previous one for rejecting
>> implicit conversions between vector types between differing numbers
>> of subparts hasn't been submitted as a patch yet, but has pretty much
>> been approved in principle.
> Oops, yes, that was it.  Does it have a PR number?

I don't believe so (but there will be a patch submitted soon).

Mark



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