On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:44:25PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > This isn't in the changelog.
> 
> Yes it is.

I need new glasses.

> > > +/* Macro to say whether we can optimize vector extracts.  */
> > > +#define VEC_EXTRACT_OPTIMIZE_P   (TARGET_DIRECT_MOVE                     
> > > \
> > > +                          && TARGET_POWERPC64                    \
> > > +                          && TARGET_UPPER_REGS_DI)
> > 
> > I'm not a big fan of this name.  "Optimize" will quickly become dated,
> > everyone will take the current new hot thing for granted, and then when
> > you want to optimise even more (say, for ISA 6.0 or whatever) the name
> > is really out of place.
> > 
> > But I don't know a much better name either.
> 
> I changed it to TARGET_DIRECT_MOVE_64BIT, which hopefully is clearer of what
> exactly we need.  In particular, the calculation of the bit shift is done in
> the GPR and direct move creates teh vector used by VSLO to do a byte shift.

That is a much better name, thanks!


Segher

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