[fpc-devel] Problems with MM types (__m128 etc).

[Jonas Maebe]

On 06/04/2022 19:20, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
> I recently made a merge request that initally just fixed the incorrect 
> memory alignment for __m128 and similar types, but doing so revealed a 
> whole plethora of other bugs.  First, when I fixed it, __m128 etc were 
> no longer recognised as a valid SIMD or aggregate type due to the wrong 
> alignment field being checked at one point, and some tests with 
> vectorcall revealed some bad code being generated in places.

Note that the ado_IsVector flag until now was only added to be able to 
define arrays as vector types for the purpose of the LLVM backend. There 
is absolutely no support for vector types based on this flag anywhere in 
the code generator.


Jonas