From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1990 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2011 01:50:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 1807 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Oct 2011 01:50:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (HELO shards.monkeyblade.net) (198.137.202.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:50:06 +0000 Received: from localhost (cpe-66-65-61-233.nyc.res.rr.com [66.65.61.233]) (authenticated bits=0) by shards.monkeyblade.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9E1nchm005524 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:49:41 -0700 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:06:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20111013.214938.591570193816583158.davem@davemloft.net> To: ebotcazou@adacore.com Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, rth@redhat.com Subject: Re: VIS2 pattern review From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <201110140041.42467.ebotcazou@adacore.com> References: <4E96358F.30405@redhat.com> <20111013.155559.1663153362558602407.davem@davemloft.net> <201110140041.42467.ebotcazou@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00218.txt.bz2 From: Eric Botcazou Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:41:42 +0200 >> Unfortunately, that would involve some ABI changes for the VIS >> builtins. I'm trending towards considering just changing things >> anyways since the VIS intrinsics were next to unusable beforehand. > > Could you elaborate? The calling conventions for vectors (like for the other > classes) shouldn't depend on the mode but only on the type. Right and as Richard said I can munge the modes during expansion of existing builtins when needed.