Re: altivec: how to load a scalar.

[Nicholas Coult <coult@augsburg.edu>]

>
>However, I need one thing to get my algorithm working: I need to load a
>scalar into a vector register and zero all other elements in the vector.
>It does not matter where in the vector the scalar element ends up.
>
>I looked at the lvewx instruction that does exactly that, however the
>values at the positions in the vector that is not occupied by the scalar
>are undefined after the load, and not zero.
>

If you have a zero vector handy, you could use vsel to create a new 
vector with 3 elements selected from the zero vector and the one 
desired element from the other vector.



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