2015-10-13 18:35 GMT+03:00 Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com>: > On 10/13/2015 08:56 AM, Ilya Enkovich wrote: >> >> 2015-10-12 13:37 GMT+03:00 Alan Lawrence <alan.lawre...@arm.com>: >>> >>> On 09/10/15 22:01, Jeff Law wrote: >>> >>>> So my question for the series as a whole is whether or not we need to do >>>> something for the other languages, particularly Fortran. I was a bit >>>> surprised to see this stuff bleed into the C/C++ front-ends and >>>> obviously wonder if it's bled into Fortran, Ada, Java, etc. >>> >>> >>> >>> Isn't that just because, we have GNU extensions to C/C++, for vectors? I >>> admit I don't know enough Ada/Fortran to know whether we've added GNU >>> extensions to those languages as well... >>> >>> A. >> >> >> I also got an impression only GNU vector extensions should be >> affected. And those are for C/C++ only. > > I'd be surprised if Fortran doesn't have vector capabilities. I think some > sanity checking in there would be wise.
Vector type in language doesn't mean SIMD. AFAIK OpenMP is used in Fortran for SIMD features. Also I would get a lot of Fortran regressions in case such feature exists due to fixed IL checker. Thanks, Ilya > > jeff
