+/* Widen a scalar value SCALAR_VALUE to vector type VECTOR_TYPE by
+ replicating SCALAR_VALUE for each element of the vector. Only scalar
+ types that can be cast to the type of one element of the vector are
+ acceptable. The newly created vector value is returned upon success,
+ otherwise an error is thrown. */
+
+struct value *
+value_vector_widen (struct value *scalar_value, struct type *vector_type)
+{
+ /* Widen the scalar to a vector. */
+ struct type *eltype, *scalar_type;
+ struct value *val, *elval;
+ LONGEST low_bound, high_bound;
+ int i;
+
+ CHECK_TYPEDEF (vector_type);
+
+ gdb_assert (TYPE_CODE (vector_type) == TYPE_CODE_ARRAY
+ && TYPE_VECTOR (vector_type));
+
+ if (!get_array_bounds (vector_type, &low_bound, &high_bound))
+ error (_("Could not determine the vector bounds"));
+
+ eltype = check_typedef (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (vector_type));
+ elval = value_cast (eltype, scalar_value);
+
+ scalar_type = check_typedef (value_type (scalar_value));
+
+ /* If we reduced the length of the scalar then check we didn't loose any
+ important bits. */
+ if (TYPE_LENGTH (eltype) < TYPE_LENGTH (scalar_type)
+ && !value_equal (elval, scalar_value))
+ error (_("conversion of scalar to vector involves truncation"));
+
+ val = allocate_value (vector_type);
+ for (i = 0; i < high_bound - low_bound + 1; i++)
+ /* Duplicate the contents of elval into the destination vector. */
+ memcpy (value_contents_writeable (val) + (i * TYPE_LENGTH (eltype)),
+ value_contents_all (elval), TYPE_LENGTH (eltype));
+
+ return val;
+}
+