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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:50:55 +0000 (UTC)
From: Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>
To: Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] VECT: Add WHILE_LEN pattern for decrement IV support
 for auto-vectorization
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2023, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> "juzhe.zhong@rivai.ai" <juzhe.zhong@rivai.ai> writes:
> > OK. Thanks Richard.
> > So let me conclude:
> > 1. Community agree that I should support variable IV in the middle-end.
> > 2. We can keep WHILE_LEN pattern when "not only final iteration is partial".
> >     And I should describe it more clearly in the doc.
> >
> > I should do these 2 things in the later update patch.
> 
> Sounds good to me, but Richi is the maintainer.

But I happily defer to you for designing VL stuff.  I suppose it's
time to make you maintainer as well ... (you are global reviewer).

That said, I will look at an updated patch.

Richard.