On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Bill Schmidt
<wschm...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> OK, currently testing the following.  OK if it passes?
>
> Index: gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c
> ===================================================================
> --- gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c  (revision 201149)
> +++ gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c  (working copy)
> @@ -28518,6 +28518,11 @@ altivec_expand_vec_perm_const (rtx operands[4])
>           enum machine_mode omode = insn_data[icode].operand[0].mode;
>           enum machine_mode imode = insn_data[icode].operand[1].mode;
>
> +         /* For little-endian, the two input operands must be swapped
> +            (or swapped back) to ensure proper right-to-left numbering
> +            from 0 to 2N-1.  */
> +          if (!BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN)
> +            swapped = !swapped;
>           if (swapped)
>             x = op0, op0 = op1, op1 = x;
>           if (imode != V16QImode)

I would prefer something like

if (swapped ^ ! BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN) ...

to make it more clear that the test only is affecting that specific
swapping of arguments and not the other uses of "swapped" within the
loop, i.e., not the earlier pattern comparison.

Thanks, David

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