https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88234
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |segher at gcc dot gnu.org, | |willschm at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- I guess it depends on how vec_add is supposed to be defined. It is certainly expanded as signed int vector addition, already gimple dump (and original too) has something like: _1 = VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<__vector signed int>(a); _2 = VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<__vector signed int>(b); _3 = _1 + _2; c = VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<__vector unsigned int>(_3); _4 = VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<__vector signed char>(c); So, either the testcase is wrong (if vec_add is defined to operate on signed vectors) or the powerpc __builtin_vec_add lowering is incorrect.