----- Original Message ----- > On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Hal Finkel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been thinking about constructing a patch to implement > > __builtin_vectorconvert(type, value), do you think that is a > > reasonable approach? > > It would be nice if what you come up with is capable of being > extended to include rounding and saturation, like the OpenCL > convert_* ops. Obviously that blows up the space enormously, so I > wouldn’t expect anyone to do them all at once.
Do you have a recommended design? I could do something like this: __builtin_vectorconvert(type, value, rnd = 0, sat = 0) where the last two parameters are integers with default values specifying the rounding mode and a saturation parameter. -Hal > > – Steve -- Hal Finkel Assistant Computational Scientist Leadership Computing Facility Argonne National Laboratory _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
