recent troubles with float vectors & bitwise ops
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Thu Aug 23 10:16:00 GMT 2007
>> Why did Intel split up these instructions in the first place, is it
>> because they wanted to have a seperate vector units in some cases?
>> I don't know and I don't care that much.
To some extent I agree with Andrew Pinski here. Saying that you need
support in a generic vector extension for "vector float | vector float"
in order to generate ANDPS and not PXOR, is just wrong. That should be
done by the back-end.
Paolo
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