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Re: RFA: Don't try to take address of SIMD vectors


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
CodeSourcery, LLC


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