I'd made it a precondition of vector_builder::elt that the encoding must have been fully populated and that all implicit elements are therefore defined. But for one of the AArch64 patches I'm working on, it'd be convenient to be able to look back at previous elements while building up the encoding. This patch therefore makes the assert specific to implicit elements only.
Tested on aarch64-linux-gnu, aarch64_be-elf and x86_64-linux-gnu. OK to install? Richard 2019-07-12 Richard Sandiford <richard.sandif...@arm.com> gcc/ * vector-builder.h (vector_builder::elt): Allow already-supplied elements to be read back before building is complete. Index: gcc/vector-builder.h =================================================================== --- gcc/vector-builder.h 2019-07-12 08:39:56.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc/vector-builder.h 2019-07-12 08:46:38.069172474 +0100 @@ -199,14 +199,15 @@ vector_builder<T, Derived>::operator == T vector_builder<T, Derived>::elt (unsigned int i) const { - /* This only makes sense if the encoding has been fully populated. */ - gcc_checking_assert (encoded_nelts () <= this->length ()); - /* First handle elements that are already present in the underlying vector, regardless of whether they're part of the encoding or not. */ if (i < this->length ()) return (*this)[i]; + /* Extrapolation is only possible if the encoding has been fully + populated. */ + gcc_checking_assert (encoded_nelts () <= this->length ()); + /* Identify the pattern that contains element I and work out the index of the last encoded element for that pattern. */ unsigned int pattern = i % m_npatterns;