Need help with uchar support

[paul elsner]

OK, thanks for that answer.

Currently I'm not sure if I need simd_cast for the project I have in mind,
but I need basic uchar support.

What would you say is the minimal requirement for uchar to become added to
master branch?

Paul

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> Hi Paul,
>
> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 07:40:40 PM paul elsner wrote:
> > currently I try to add uchar support for Vc. See
> > paulelsner/add_uchar_support
> > I'm struggling with the simd_cast function. A lot of unit test targets
> does
> > not compile.
> >
> > Can someone take a look? I found simd_cast at many places, but I'm not
> sure
> > where to add uchar.
>
> Full simd_cast support is going to be a lot of work. :(
> simd_cast allows any cast from N Vector<T>/SimdArray<T, K> objects to M
> Vector<U>/SimdArray<U, L> objects. You'll need to add uchar simd_cast
> implementations to sse/simd_cast.h, avx/simd_cast.h, and mic/simd_cast.h.
> The
> scalar implementation, by default, already just calls static_cast. The
> SimdArray simd_casts are using the Vector<T, Abi> simd_cast
> implementations,
> so that should be covered as well.
>
> Cheers,
>   Matthias
>
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