On 11/03/2011 11:55 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Aldy Hernandez <al...@redhat.com> wrote: >> +/* Return the builtin decl needed to load a vector of TYPE. */ > ... >> + >> +/* Return the builtin decl needed to store a vector of TYPE. */ > > Is there a reason why the middle-end could not handle vector types by > default? Instead of the target having to add them>
The ABI that Intel set up for the accessors with vector type is non-standard. We need the backend to add the extra sseregparm attribute. I couldn't think of any cleaner way to handle this oddity. r~