Re: [PATCH] internal-fn: Add VCOND_MASK_LEN.

[Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>]

Robin Dapp <rdapp.gcc@gmail.com> writes:
>> Looks reasonable overall.  The new match patterns are 1:1 the
>> same as the COND_ ones.  That's a bit awkward, but I don't see
>> a good way to "macroize" stuff further there.  Can you at least
>> interleave the COND_LEN_* ones with the other ones instead of
>> putting them all at the end?
>
> Yes, no problem.  It's supposed to be only temporary anyway (FWIW)
> as I didn't manage with the "stripping _LEN" way on the first few tries.
> Still on the todo list but unlikely to be done before stage 1 closes.
>
> I believe Richard "kind of" LGTM'ed the rest minus the spurious
> pattern (which is gone now) but there is still the direct optab change
> that he didn't comment on so I think we should wait for his remarks
> still.

Could you explain why a special expansion is needed?  (Sorry if you already
have and I missed it, bit overloaded ATM.)  What does it do that is
different from what expand_fn_using_insn would do?

Thanks,
Richard