aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D88905#3362347 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D88905#3362347>, @kaz7 wrote:

> At the beginning, this implementation extends `vector_type` attribute which 
> is GCC's attribute.  So, this may cause future conflicts with GCC when they 
> extend it.  But, now this patch uses it's own `ext_vector_type` attribute.  
> So, basically this modification is safe against to the C/C++ future extension 
> and the GCC future extension, in my honest opinion.
>
> Is it OK to accept this patch?  Or is there anything we need to consider?  I 
> understand that this is a language extension, so it not easy to say OK...  
> But, this patch spent 1 year and a half almost.

At a minimum, I think the patch needs to be rebased onto the current trunk. 
However, I don't know of a reason why this patch cannot proceed.

I'd be curious whether the codegen for ext_vector_type of N bools is the same 
as for N `unsigned _BitInt(1)` (naively, I'd expect them to be equivalent).


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