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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thanks, Anastasia. I have certainly used the ext_vector_type types outside of OpenCL mode in the past. Do we currently implement the OpenCL 2 ternary operator rules for these vectors?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Anastasia Stulova <<a href="mailto:Anastasia.Stulova@arm.com">Anastasia.Stulova@arm.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I see ext_vector_type as a Clang extension that implements OpenCL rules under OpenCL mode. I believe there are areas where it behaves slightly differently if it's used in non-OpenCL code. I am
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 May 2020 14:22<br>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">What is the intent with the ext-vector-types? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal">That's a really good question. I've always thought of them as a slightly-more-convenient version of the vector types, although I suppose that they're really supposed to be OpenCL vectors. The Clang extension docs say, "OpenCL vector
types are created using the ext_vector_type attribute. It supports the V.xyzw syntax and other tidbits as seen in OpenCL." Thus, for OpenCL, I suppose that it is supposed to do this: <a href="https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/specs/2.2/html/OpenCL_C.html#operators-ternary-selection">https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/specs/2.2/html/OpenCL_C.html#operators-ternary-selection</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666"> It seems to me that it is an incompatible extension without anyone really maintaining them, and slightly different SEMA rules (for seemingly no reason).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">The conditional operator for the vector_size value was implemented as a GCC compatibility option, but no such motivation existed for ext-vetctor-types.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">That said, the semantic analysis for this in ext-vector-types is sufficiently different that it wasn’t possible to combine implementations. The rules had diverged significantly at one point,
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In general, I don't like to see features supported by not-ext-vector types that are not supported by ext-vector types.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">That having been said, is this related to our discussion on bool vectors:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-May/065434.html">http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-May/065434.html</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> cfe-dev <<a href="mailto:cfe-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org">cfe-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org</a>> on behalf of Min-Yih Hsu via cfe-dev <<a href="mailto:cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org">cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">Interesting….then I think the question simply becomes whether we should support it in ext_vector_type as well.
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">Thanks for the pointer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">On May 8, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Keane, Erich <<a href="mailto:erich.keane@intel.com">erich.keane@intel.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">Note that this was implemented for non-ext-vector types here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">Which matches the GCC version. <span class="xxxxapple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">However, clang currently doesn’t support vector type values as the predicates. So code shown below won’t compile:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">Which is essentially just a max function that can be implemented by hardware instructions (vmaxps in Intel AVX for example) efficiently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">I’m proposing to support vector type values as predicates in the ternary operator: If the predicate value has vector type, each of its element would be converted to bool before being used to select
corresponding elements from the second or third operands. Note that this is exactly what GCC is doing right now [1] in their vector extensions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">I’ll try to come up with a patch for preview as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">Also a slightly off-topic thing: In our document [2], the ternary operator has always been mis-typed as ‘:?’ Maybe we should fix it some times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#666666">[1]: <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html"><span style="color:purple">https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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