> There seem to be solid reasons to permit this, and no very strong ones > to prohibit it. We can consider it to be a GNU extension for vectors. > Vectors are of course themselves an extension already.
How are you suggesting it be implemented? Will the front/middle-end convert it to (vNsf)((vNsi)a | (vNsi)b), or do all vector backends need to lie about having float vector bitwise operations? Paul