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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW --- - Vector types do not emit size when it differs from calculable size"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=21924">21924</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Vector types do not emit size when it differs from calculable size
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libraries
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Windows XP
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>DebugInfo
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>douglas_yung@playstation.sony.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Clang allows you to create a vector using gcc's vector_size attribute. However,
if the vector's size is not equal to a power of two, it looks to be rounded up
to the nearest one.

For example, consider the following code:

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#include <stdio.h>

typedef float vec6f __attributes__((__vector_size__(24)));

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  vec6f v01[2] = {{1.0f,2.0f,3.0f,4.0f,5.0f,6.0f},
{7.0f,8.0f,9.0f,10.0f,11.0f,12.0f}};

  printf("sizeof(vec6f) = %lu\n", sizeof(vec6f));
  printf("sizeof(v01) = %lu\n", sizeof(v01));

  return 0;
=====

If you compile that with -O0 -g and then run the resulting binary through a
debugger (say gdb), you get interesting output.

The program when run will print the following:

sizeof(vec6f) = 32
sizeof(v01) = 64

However, if evaluate the same expressions in the debugger, you will get the
following:

(gdb) p sizeof(vec6f)
$1 = 24
(gdb) p sizeof(v01)
$2 = 48

Additionally, if you ask the debugger to print out v01, this is what you get:

(gdb) p v01
$3 = {{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, {0, 0, 7, 8, 9, 10}}

It has been suggested that this could be fixed if the compiler emitted either a
DW_AT_byte_size or DW_AT_byte_stride attribute.</pre>
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