[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 558] gcc SV intrinsics concept

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558

--- Comment #14 from Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Alexandre Oliva from comment #13)
> I don't really know whether power-of-two sizes are a requirement for the
> general infrastructure, rather than something that follows from the hardware
> architectures that define their vector machine modes that way.  It will take
> some experimentation.

I'd guess someone is already working on removing power-of-2 requirements in
order to support ARM SVE and RISC-V V.

> As for the built-in vectorizer, it's not like it requires effort to set
> things up so that it can do its job, AFAIK it just looks at what's available
> and attempts to use it, so I don't expect there will be effort involved in
> making it work.

ok, sounds good!

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