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Re: RFA: Don't try to take address of SIMD vectors
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:38:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFA: Don't try to take address of SIMD vectors
- References: <vt2isbrqwrq.fsf@zenia.home>
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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