Well. We don't generally introduce regressions with changes.
Understood. Regressions are bad, of course. TTBOMK the regressions in question are temporary. Once they are gone, I think we can then look at whether or not we still need to keep the old if converter in trunk. Ideally, it eventually becomes redundant and unneeded.
(well, the patch still needs review -
> I hope to get to that this week). After I`ve done the SPEC-based analysis, my next planned steps on this work are to disable the code that [in my WIP] currently causes conversion to be enabled by default when autovectorization is enabled, then to re-integrate the old converter and implement the switches that will give GCC users access to the modes I described in a recent email from me. You might prefer to delay your code review until I have that all done and a new version of the patch submitted. Regards, Abe
