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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Tim,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is the final big-endian patch in my queue. With it, we pass the emperor testcases that I’ve run.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The NEON intrinsics in arm_neon.h are designed to work on vectors "as-if" loaded by (V)LDR. We load vectors "as-if" (V)LD1, so the intrinsics are currently incorrect.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This patch adds big-endian versions of the intrinsics that does the "obvious but dumb" thing of reversing all vector inputs and all vector outputs. This will produce extra REVs, but we trust the optimizer to remove them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could you please review? There’s a documentation patch for BigEndianNeon.rst on the way too.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>James<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>