recent troubles with float vectors & bitwise ops

[Paolo Bonzini]

tbp wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I guess i fail to grasp the logic mandating that the intended source 
> level, strictly typed, 'vector float | vector float' should be mangled 
> into an int op with frantic casts to magically emerge out from the 
> backend as the original 'vector float | vector float', but i'm not a 
> compiler maintener: for me it smells like a regression.

Because it's *not* strictly typed.  Strict typing means that you accept 
the same things accepted for the element type.  So it's not a 
regression, it's a bug fix.

Paolo