Richard Sandiford via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> writes: > The main thing that makes truth vector types special is that those > types are the only ones that allow multiple elements in the same byte. > A “normal” 16-byte vector created by build_vector_type(_for_mode) > cannot be smaller than 16 bytes.
Er, of course I meant “16-element vector created by...”. 16-byte vectors that are smaller than 16 bytes would indeed be a problem. Thanks, Richard