From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24316 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2012 00:01:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 24306 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jul 2012 00:01:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from anubis.se.axis.com (HELO anubis.se.axis.com) (195.60.68.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:01:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anubis.se.axis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B81F19DB0; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:01:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from anubis.se.axis.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (anubis.se.axis.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Jpu8qmF44F0e; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:01:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from seth.se.axis.com (seth.se.axis.com [10.0.2.172]) by anubis.se.axis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D5219D0F; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:01:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ignucius.se.axis.com (ignucius.se.axis.com [10.88.21.50]) by seth.se.axis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65623E0AB; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:01:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ignucius.se.axis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ignucius.se.axis.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Debian-2woody1) with ESMTP id q6U01Yd0000837; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:01:34 +0200 Received: (from hp@localhost) by ignucius.se.axis.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Debian-2woody1) id q6U01Yxp000833; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:01:34 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:15:00 -0000 Message-Id: <201207300001.q6U01Yxp000833@ignucius.se.axis.com> From: Hans-Peter Nilsson To: uweigand@de.ibm.com CC: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org In-reply-to: <201207271524.q6RFO8g9010762@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> (message from Ulrich Weigand on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:24:08 +0200) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Target-specific limits on vector alignment MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg01461.txt.bz2 > From: Ulrich Weigand > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:24:08 +0200 > Richard (Earnshaw) has asked me to take over working on this patch now. > > I've now made the change requested above and removed the size argument. > The target is now simply asked to return the required alignment for the > given vector type. I've also added a check for the case where the > target provides both an alignment and a mode for a vector type, but > the mode actually requires bigger alignment than the type. This is > simply rejected (the target can fix this by reporting a different > type alignment or changing the mode alignment). Sounds great, IMHO. brgds, H-P