primitive vector types

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-02-21 04:34:07 -0500, Christian Kamm 
<kamm-incasoftware at remove-garbage.de> said:

> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> Convince Walter to add float4 type and some intrinsics to DMD (I'll post a
>> list of those we use later), LDC will follow, I believe. There should be
>> some type that would be treated specially. After all, intrinsics have
>> function signatures and those should specify some concrete types.
> 
> Yes, LDC would follow. The main reason people can't use these 
> intrinsics in LDC at the moment is that there's no type in D that maps 
> to an LLVM vector type.

Instead of introducing new a new type, couldn't float[4] be the one 
mapped to a vector type? Why do we need a new type?

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