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To: Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com>
cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, lorenz@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: generic vectors: how should they work? 
In-Reply-To: Message from Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> 
   of "Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:35:11 PDT." <20040901003511.GA8377@us.ibm.com> 
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 02:11:00 -0000
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2

	I think part of the problem is that the term "generic vector" is
being used for both arbitrary size vectors and synthetic (portable?) SIMD
modes.  These are not necessarily the same thing and the implementation is
not necessarily the same for both.

David