[Bug target/96895] ABI of returning V1DF differs between GCC and clang

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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96895

--- Comment #5 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Michael Matz from comment #2)
> The psABI doesn't say anything about such types, no.  Maybe it could in some
> additional info pages, but it's always a problem to codify behaviour
> retroactively
> in it, when conflicting implementations already exist.  It is about
> extension types, though, so we might be fine.
> 
> FWIW, even ignoring the obvious relation of v1Xf to Xf, GCC behaviour for
> float and clang behaviour for double is the most logical one: this extended
> type is most
> similar to a struct containing one float/double, and such are passed in XMM
> registers per psABI.  As this is also consistent with how a single
> top-level float is passed, this choice is the most consistent one.  This is
> also
> what the psABI _would_ say, if we had written it into it, so at least both
> compilers would need a change to implement it.

So vector types with element type T and N, a power-of-two, not otherwise
specified are passes the same as

struct S { T a[N] };

?  I guess there's mismatch then for AVX types with -mno-avx then at least
(AVX512 are probably too big to be passed in registers).