In OpenCL, `bool` vectors are a reserved type, and are therefore
illegal.
Outside of OpenCL, if we try to make an extended vector of N `bool`s,
Clang will lower it to an `[N x i1]`. LLVM has no ABI for bitvectors, so
lots of operations on such vectors are thoroughly broken. As a result,
this patch makes them illegal in everything else, as well. :)
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15721
llvm-svn: 259011
LLVM supports applying conversion instructions to vectors of the same number of
elements (fptrunc, fptosi, etc.) but there had been no way for a Clang user to
cause such instructions to be generated when using builtin vector types.
C-style casting on vectors is already defined in terms of bitcasts, and so
cannot be used for these conversions as well (without leading to a very
confusing set of semantics). As a result, this adds a __builtin_convertvector
intrinsic (patterned after the OpenCL __builtin_astype intrinsic). This is
intended to aid the creation of vector intrinsic headers that create generic IR
instead of target-dependent intrinsics (in other words, this is a generic
_mm_cvtepi32_ps). As noted in the documentation, the action of
__builtin_convertvector is defined in terms of the action of a C-style cast on
each vector element.
llvm-svn: 190915
George Burgess IV