Ben,
Comment about DW_AT_variable_vector_width below.
Keith
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 07:16:35PM -0700, Ben Woodard via Dwarf-discuss wrote:
> To distinguish these vector types from regular C arrays, GCC's DWARF
> describes a vector type as an array with the DW_AT_GNU_vector
> attribute. Clang also supports the GCC vector extensions, and
> describes the vect
Hello Ben,
>This is version 2 of my vector types submission.
>
>Differences from V1:
>- Made the submission about vector types rather than vector registers.
>- Substituted Pedro's much better introduction for my own with minor edits.
>- Removed the modifications to the DWARF Stack. The AMD people
Hello Jakub, Ben,
>On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 07:16:35PM -0700, Ben Woodard via Dwarf-discuss wrote:
>> To distinguish these vector types from regular C arrays, GCC's DWARF
>> describes a vector type as an array with the DW_AT_GNU_vector
>> attribute. Clang also supports the GCC vector extensions, a
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 10:47:02AM +, Metzger, Markus T wrote:
> >I don't think this is a good idea, we should go for
> >DW_TAG_vector_type
> >instead IMHO. DW_AT_GNU_vector used to be a good idea as an extension,
> >as mentioned the (generic) vector types are in many ways similar to arrays,
>
Various thoughts...
> Not sure if supporting dimensions in the way which is done
> for arrays is needed (I believe vector types are always one-dimensional
> indexed from 0).
"always"? There are many element by element operations on multidimensional
arrays that might benefit
from use of vector har
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 07:52:32AM -0400, Ron Brender wrote:
> Various thoughts...
>
> > Not sure if supporting dimensions in the way which is done
> > for arrays is needed (I believe vector types are always one-dimensional
> > indexed from 0).
>
> "always"? There are many element by element oper
On 4/6/23 03:16, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 07:16:35PM -0700, Ben Woodard via Dwarf-discuss wrote:
To distinguish these vector types from regular C arrays, GCC's DWARF
describes a vector type as an array with the DW_AT_GNU_vector
attribute. Clang also supports the GCC vector
On 4/6/23 03:47, Metzger, Markus T wrote:
Hello Jakub, Ben,
On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 07:16:35PM -0700, Ben Woodard via Dwarf-discuss wrote:
To distinguish these vector types from regular C arrays, GCC's DWARF
describes a vector type as an array with the DW_AT_GNU_vector
attribute. Clang also
I believe that all three points that you bring up here are correct and I
will fix them in V3 of my proposal.
On 4/6/23 03:44, Metzger, Markus T wrote:
Hello Ben,
This is version 2 of my vector types submission.
Differences from V1:
- Made the submission about vector types rather than vecto
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