On Tuesday, October 05, 2010 8:08:07 pm Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> I think it would be better to change your patch to perform the
> operation you're doing in the new widen_scalar_to_vector routine
> simply in value_cast instead (if the source is a scalar and the
> target type a vector type).

This is a bright idea! The attached patch enhances value_cast to be able widen 
scalars to vectors as suggested. Tested on i686-*-linux-gnu with no 
regressions. Any comments are appreciated as usual.

Thanks
Ken