------- Comment #10 from hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2010-01-17 22:11 ------- (In reply to comment #7) > Btw, if you know more about data types than nothing then do not use the > __m128* types for data but build your vector types yourself with an > appropriate base type like > > typedef T m128T __attribute__((__vector_size__(16)));
It isn't a bad idea. > It seems that the Intel intrinsics API at no point follows type-based > aliasing rules (they even have vectors of characters, so restricting > types based on possible data types is not going to work out). > That is true. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42779
