Re: Even stricter implicit conversions between vectors

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Ollmann
On Nov 2, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Mark Shinwell wrote: Ian Ollmann wrote: stronger type checking seems like a good idea to me in general. I agree, but I don't really want to break lots of code all at once, even if that code is being slightly more slack than it perhaps ought to be :-) Given

Re: Even stricter implicit conversions between vectors

2006-11-01 Thread Ian Ollmann
Assuming I understand the proposal properly, this sounds to me like it amounts reversing the change we experienced in the Apple GCC from 3.3 -> 4.0. Type checking became a lot more lax for us in 4.0. We use AltiVec very heavily. From experience in cases when our 4.0 code had to be back