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Hi Ira,
Thanks for the feedback.
On 6 March 2011 09:20, Ira Rosen IRAR@il.ibm.com wrote:
So how about the following functions? (Forgive the pascally syntax.)
__builtin_load_lanes (REF : array N*M of X) returns array N of vector M of X maps to vldN in practice, the result would be used in assignments of the form: vectorX = ARRAY_REF <result, X>
__builtin_store_lanes (VECTORS : array N of vector M of X) returns array N*M of X maps to vstN in practice, the argument would be populated by assignments ofthe
form:
vectorX = ARRAY_REF <result, X>
__builtin_load_lane (REF : array N of X, VECTORS : array N of vector M of X, LANE : integer) returns array N of vector M of X maps to vldN_lane
__builtin_store_lane (VECTORS : array N of vector M of X, LANE : integer) returns array N of X maps to vstN_lane
How do you distinguish between "multiple structures" and "single structure to all lanes"?
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the question. Could you give a couple of examples?
The idea is that the arrays above really are array types, regardless of the actual type of the thing we're accessing (which might be a larger array than the bounds above say, or which might be an array of structures or a structure of arrays). That should be OK because arrays alias their elements.
Richard