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From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: front end changes for altivec
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:10:00 -0000
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On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 19:03, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:35PM -0600, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> > why can't you have sizeof((vector int))?
> 
> Oh, you mean vector_width == sizeof(vector int) / sizeof(int)?
> Um, I guess that works.

right

> But what do you do with
> 
> 	vector int x = (vector int){ 1, 2, 3, 4 };
> 
> when a vector is only two elements wide?

that should trigger a syntax error.  and vector constants should only be
used in initializers.
> 
> 
> r~
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