On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Peter Bergner <berg...@vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > The following patch fixes a bug where we do not disable POWER9 vector dform > addressing when we compile for POWER9 but without VSX support. This > manifested > itself with us trying to use dform addressing with altivec loads/stores > which is illegal, leading to an ICE.
Peter, DFORM definitely should be disabled without VSX, but the patch seems incomplete. If VSX and DFORM are enabled, and GCC chooses an Altivec instruction alternative in a pattern, what is to prevent the generation of a DFORM address? Thanks, David
