On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 7:27 PM Jeff Law via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: [...] > On a related topic, any thoughts on keeping complex objects as complex > types/modes through gimple and into at least parts of the RTL pipeline? > > The way complex arithmetic instructions work on our chip is going to be > extremely tough to utilize in GCC -- we really need to the complex > types/arithmetic up through RTL generation at the least. Ideally we'd > even expose complex modes all the way to final. Is that something > y'all could benefit from as well? Have y'all poked at this problem at all?
Since you are going to need to "recover" complex operations from people open-coding them (both fortran and C and also C++ with std::complex) it should be less work to just do that ;) I think that complex modes and types exist solely for ABI purposes. Richard. > jeff >
