[PATCH] Allow casts of mixed-size same-arity vectors

[Stephen Canon]

On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:

> I've been thinking about constructing a patch to implement __builtin_vectorconvert(type, value), do you think that is a reasonable approach?

It would be nice if what you come up with is capable of being extended to include rounding and saturation, like the OpenCL convert_* ops.  Obviously that blows up the space enormously, so I wouldn’t expect anyone to do them all at once.

– Steve