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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] eal/armv8: fix poly64/128 compile issue
	in old GCC(<4.9.0)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:44:26 +0300
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13/07/2017 05:16, Herbert Guan:
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/rte_vect.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/rte_vect.h
> +#if (GCC_VERSION < 40900)
> +typedef uint64_t poly64_t;
> +typedef uint64x2_t poly64x2_t;
> +typedef uint8_t poly128_t __attribute__((vector_size(16), aligned(16)));
> +#endif

I think a better fix would be to switch to DPDK types
like rte_v128u8_t.