This actually fixes an issue in unit-test packetmath_2 with pcmp_eq when it is compiled with clang. When pcmp_eq(Packet4f,Packet4f) is used instead of pcmp_eq(Packet2d,Packet2d), the unit-test does not pass due to NaN on ref vector.
The vec_vsx_ld/vec_vsx_st builtins were wrongly used for aligned load/store. In fact, they perform unaligned memory access and, even when the address is 16-byte aligned, they are much slower (at least 2x) than their aligned counterparts.
For double/Packet2d vec_xl/vec_xst should be prefered over vec_ld/vec_st, although the latter works when casted to float/Packet4f.
Silencing some weird warning with throw but some GCC versions. Such warning are not thrown by Clang.
If no offset is given, them it should be zero.
Also passes full address to vec_vsx_ld/st builtins.
Removes userless _EIGEN_ALIGNED_PTR & _EIGEN_MASK_ALIGNMENT.
Removes unnecessary casts.
This is a preparation to a change on gebp_traits, where a new template
argument will be introduced to dictate the packet size, so it won't be
bound to the current/max packet size only anymore.
By having packet types defined early on gebp_traits, one has now to
act on packet types, not scalars anymore, for the enum values defined
on that class. One approach for reaching the vectorizable/size
properties one needs there could be getting the packet's scalar again
with unpacket_traits<>, then the size/Vectorizable enum entries from
packet_traits<>. It turns out guards like "#ifndef
EIGEN_VECTORIZE_AVX512" at AVX/PacketMath.h will hide smaller packet
variations of packet_traits<> for some types (and it makes sense to
keep that). In other words, one can't go back to the scalar and create
a new PacketType, as this will always lead to the maximum packet type
for the architecture.
The less costly/invasive solution for that, thus, is to add the
vectorizable info on every unpacket_traits struct as well.
because this is what they are about. "Fused" means "no intermediate rounding
between the mul and the add, only one rounding at the end". Instead,
what we are concerned about here is whether a temporary register is needed,
i.e. whether the MUL and ADD are separate instructions.
Concretely, on ARM NEON, a single-instruction mul-add is always available: VMLA.
But a true fused mul-add is only available on VFPv4: VFMA.