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authorRichard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>2018-01-30 09:45:40 +0000
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Expand vec_perm_indices::series_p comment
2018-01-30 Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@linaro.org> gcc/ * vec-perm-indices.c (vec_perm_indices::series_p): Give examples of usage. From-SVN: r257176
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+2018-01-30 Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>
+
+ * vec-perm-indices.c (vec_perm_indices::series_p): Give examples
+ of usage.
+
2018-01-29 Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
PR target/81550
diff --git a/gcc/vec-perm-indices.c b/gcc/vec-perm-indices.c
index 53dbe0d..9248961 100644
--- a/gcc/vec-perm-indices.c
+++ b/gcc/vec-perm-indices.c
@@ -114,7 +114,18 @@ vec_perm_indices::rotate_inputs (int delta)
}
/* Return true if index OUT_BASE + I * OUT_STEP selects input
- element IN_BASE + I * IN_STEP. */
+ element IN_BASE + I * IN_STEP. For example, the call to test
+ whether a permute reverses a vector of N elements would be:
+
+ series_p (0, 1, N - 1, -1)
+
+ which would return true for { N - 1, N - 2, N - 3, ... }.
+ The calls to test for an interleaving of elements starting
+ at N1 and N2 would be:
+
+ series_p (0, 2, N1, 1) && series_p (1, 2, N2, 1).
+
+ which would return true for { N1, N2, N1 + 1, N2 + 1, ... }. */
bool
vec_perm_indices::series_p (unsigned int out_base, unsigned int out_step,