On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:12:00PM +0800, Kewen.Lin wrote: > > Btw, why not implement the neccessary vector init patterns? > > Power doesn't support 64bit vector size, it looks a bit hacky and > confusing to introduce this kind of mode just for some optab requirement, > but I admit the optab hack can immediately make it work. :)
But it opens up all kinds of other problems. To begin with, how is a short vector mapped to a "real" vector? We don't have ops on short integer types, either, for similar reasons. Segher
