RFA: Don't try to take address of SIMD vectors
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Sat Mar 26 22:38:00 GMT 2005
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:26:17AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> This is, in some sense, a followup to:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-05/msg00027.html
>
> No regressions on i686-pc-linux-gnu or powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu;
> fixes vector subscripting on PowerPC E500 SIMD vectors.
>
> 2004-08-09 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
>
> * eval.c (evaluate_subexp_with_coercion): Don't try to produce a
> pointer to the value's first element if it's a SIMD vector value,
> not an ordinary array.
Hi Jim,
I see that this patch was never checked in. I can't convince myself
from the above that it's necessary; if you still want it, could you
show some examples? Bonus points if they fit in the testsuite.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
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