PNaCl SIMD documentation: improve documentation on casts and __builtin_convertvector.

native_client_sdk/src/doc/reference/pnacl-c-cpp-language-support.rst

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 PNaCl C/C++ Language Support
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 Source language support
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 <http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-and-extended-vectors>`_
 and `GCC vectors
 <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html>`_ since these
 are well supported by different hardware platforms and don't require any
 new compiler intrinsics.
 
 Vector types can be used through the ``vector_size`` attribute:
 
 .. naclcode::
 
-  typedef int v4si __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
-  v4si a = {1,2,3,4};
-  v4si b = {5,6,7,8};
-  v4si c, d, e;
+  typedef int v4s __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
+  v4s a = {1,2,3,4};
+  v4s b = {5,6,7,8};
+  v4s c, d, e;
   c = b + 1;  /* c = b + {1,1,1,1}; */
   d = 2 * b;  /* d = {2,2,2,2} * b; */
   e = c + d;
 
 Vector comparisons are represented as a bitmask as wide as the compared
 elements of all ``0`` or all ``1``:
 
 .. naclcode::
 
-  typedef int v4si __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
-  v4si snip(v2si in) {
-    v4si limit = {32,64,128,256};
-    vs4i mask = in > limit;
-    vs4i ret = in & mask;
+  typedef int v4s __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
+  v4s snip(v4s in) {
+    v4s limit = {32,64,128,256};
+    v4s mask = in > limit;
+    v4s ret = in & mask;
     return ret;
   }
 
 Vector datatypes are currently expected to be 128-bit wide with one of
 the following element types:
 
 ============  ============  ================
 Type          Num Elements  Vector Bit Width
 ============  ============  ================
 ``uint8_t``   16            128
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 +----------------------------------------------+
 | ``>>``, ``<<``                               |
 +----------------------------------------------+
 | ``!``, ``&&``, ``||``                        |
 +----------------------------------------------+
 | ``==``, ``!=``, ``>``, ``<``, ``>=``, ``<=`` |
 +----------------------------------------------+
 | ``=``                                        |
 +----------------------------------------------+
 
-Furthermore, C-style casts can be used for:
+C-style casts can be used to convert one vector type to another without
+modifying the underlying bits. ``__builtin_convertvector`` can be used
+to convert from one type to another.
 
-* Truncation.
-* Zero- and sign-extension.
-* Conversion to/from floating-point and signed/unsigned integer.
+.. naclcode::
+
+  typedef unsigned v4u __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
+  typedef float v4f __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
+  v4u a = {0,0x40000000,0x40490fdb,0x66ff0c30};
+  v4f b = (v4f) a; /* b = {0,2,3.14159,6.02214e+23}  */
+  v4u c = __builtin_convertvector(b, v4u); /* c = {0,2,3,0} */
 
 It is also possible to use array-style indexing into vectors to extract
 individual elements using ``[]``.
 
+.. naclcode::
+
+  typedef unsigned v4u __attribute__((vector_size(16)));
+  template<typename T>
+  void print(const T v) {
+    for (size_t i = 0; i != sizeof(v) / sizeof(v[0]); ++i)
+      std::cout << v[i] << ' ';
+    std::cout << std::endl;
+  }
+
 Vector shuffles are currently unsupported but will be added soon.
 
 Auto-Vectorization
 ------------------
 
 Auto-vectorization is currently not enabled for Portable Native Client,
 but will be in a future release.
 
 Undefined Behavior
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   A similar feature is **thread suspension**: The ability to
   asynchronously suspend and resume a thread and inspect or modify its
   execution state (such as register state).
 
   Neither PNaCl nor NaCl currently support asynchronous interruption
   or suspension of threads.
 
 If PNaCl were to support either of these, the interaction of
 ``volatile`` and atomics with same-thread signal handling would need
 to be carefully detailed.