"Joseph S. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: | | > I think we should revert the patch, and continue permitting the | > bitwise operations on vector float. | > | > There seem to be solid reasons to permit this, and no very strong ones | > to prohibit it. We can consider it to be a GNU extension for vectors. | > Vectors are of course themselves an extension already. | | We decided long ago that the extension would be based on what's permitted | by C++ valarray rather than by a particular CPU's vector intrinsics.
In C++, the broadcast operations are allowed on arrays if, and only if, they are allowed on element types. -- Gaby
