[Bug 1449119] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

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------- Comment From brenohl at br.ibm.com 2015-08-27 13:16 EDT-------
Already available in 15.10 release with gcc version 5.2.1-15ubuntu2.
CLosing at IBM side.

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Title:
  [Ubuntu 15.10] gcc: Optimize swap removal in presence of floating-
  point vector convert/splat sequence

Status in gcc-4.8 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gcc-4.9 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gcc-5 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gcc-4.8 source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  On Little Endian systems, GCC performs optimizations to remove
  unnecessary element reversals of vectors that are sometimes required
  to adjust for behavior of the lxvd2x, etc., instructions.  In one not
  uncommon case, such optimizations are defeated when we perform a
  vector convert from double-precision to single-precision followed by a
  vector splat word.  I have pushed patches upstream to fix this,
  implemented using the following revisions:

  GCC trunk (6.0):  222351
  GCC 5.1:  222394
  GCC 4.9:  222420
  GCC 4.8:  222427

  I would like to see the backported patch applied to the gcc shipped
  with the Ubuntu 15.10 release.  We should probably have a conversation
  about the next service pack for the 14.04 LTS release as well.

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