[Dwarf-Discuss] Vector base types...

[Michael Eager]

On 10/31/2011 10:30 AM, Relph, Richard wrote:
> Is there a convention for representing vector base types in a language?
>
> Our language (OpenCL) has 2, 3, 4, 8, and 16 element vectors of each of the normal C base types and
> we?re currently representing them in an ad hoc way. We?d like to follow whatever convention exists
> for doing this, but we haven?t figured out what that is. Setting DW_AT_byte_size to the size of one
> element begs the question of how many, and setting it to the size of the type itself is ambiguous
> (unless you peek at the name? which we are resisting, though perhaps that ?right way?.) A char4,
> short2, and int all have 4 bytes and the same encoding.

Is there a functional difference between an array and a vector?

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