[LLVMbugs] [Bug 17300] confusing return from _mm_extract_epi8() in smmintrin.h

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http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17300

Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> _mm_extract_epi8() function in smmintrin.h returns unsigned char instead of
> int.
> It is confusing because the corresponding PEXTRB instruction returns ***zero
> extended*** int/__int64 value.
> 
> In smmintrin.h of GNU C "(unsigned char)" is redundant:
> 
> extern __inline int __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__,

Uh... The return type is right here and it is int. The cast you refer to is in
the definition not the signature.

Does using this intrinsic produce machine code other than what you would
expect?

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