On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Artem Shinkarov
<artyom.shinkar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a cleaned-up patch without the hook. Mostly it works in a way
> we discussed.
>
> So I think it is a right time to do something about vcond patterns,
> which would allow me to get rid of conversions that I need to put all
> over the code.
>
> Also at the moment the patch breaks lto frontend with a simple example:
> #define vector(elcount, type) \
> __attribute__((vector_size((elcount)*sizeof(type)))) type
>
> int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
> vector (4, float) f0;
> vector (4, float) f1;
>
> f0 = f1 != f0
> ? (vector (4, float)){-1,-1,-1,-1} : (vector (4, float)){0,0,0,0};
>
> return (int)f0[argc];
> }
>
> test-lto.c:8:14: internal compiler error: in convert, at lto/lto-lang.c:1244
>
> I looked into the file, the conversion function is defined as
> gcc_unreachable (). I am not very familiar with lto, so I don't really
> know what is the right way to treat the conversions.
convert cannot be called from the middle-end, instead use fold_convert.
> And I seriously need help with backend patterns.
I'll look at the patch in detail later today.
Richard.
>
> Thanks,
> Artem.
>
