recent troubles with float vectors & bitwise ops

[tbp]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> What does it mean to do a bitwise-or of a floating point value?
Apparently enough for a small vendor like Intel to propose such things 
as orps, andps, andnps, and xorps.
So, that's what i feared... it was intentional. And now i guess the only 
sanctioned access to those ops is via builtins/intrinsics. Great.
If only i could get the same quality of code when using intrinsics to 
begin with...