This is the `ext_vector_type` alternative to D81083.
This patch extends Clang to allow 'bool' as a valid vector element type
(attribute ext_vector_type) in C/C++.
This is intended as the canonical type for SIMD masks and facilitates
clean vector intrinsic declarations. Vectors of i1 are supported on IR
level and below down to many SIMD ISAs, such as AVX512, ARM SVE (fixed
vector length) and the VE target (NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA).
The RFC on cfe-dev: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-May/065434.html
Reviewed By: erichkeane
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88905
Adding __attribute__((aligned(32))) to __m256 breaks the implementation
of _mm256_loadu_ps on Windows. On Windows, alignment attributes have
higher precedence than packing attributes.
We also might want to carefully consider the consequences of changing
our vector typedefs, since many users copy them and invent their own
new, non-Intel specific vector type names.
llvm-svn: 333958
This fixes two major problems:
- We were not capping vector alignment as desired on 32-bit ARM.
- We were using different alignments based on the AVX settings on
Intel, so we did not have a consistent ABI.
This is an ABI break, but we think we can get away with it because
vectors tend to be used mostly in inline code (which is why not having
a consistent ABI has not proven disastrous on Intel).
Intel's AVX types are specified as having 32-byte / 64-byte alignment,
so align them explicitly instead of relying on the base ABI rule.
Note that this sort of attribute is stripped from template arguments
in template substitution, so there's a possibility that code templated
over vectors will produce inadequately-aligned objects. The right
long-term solution for this is for alignment attributes to be
interpreted as true qualifiers and thus preserved in the canonical type.
llvm-svn: 333791
Without this, 64-byte vector types (__m512), specified to be 64-byte
aligned in the AVX512 draft SysV ABI, will only be 32-byte aligned.
This is analoguous to AVX, for which we accept 32-byte max alignment.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10724
llvm-svn: 246230
There's no point in using a larger alignment if we have no instructions
that would benefit from it.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12389
llvm-svn: 246229
AVX). Currently, if no aligned attribute is specified the alignment of a vector is
inferred from its size. Thus, very large vectors will be over-aligned with no
benefit. Target owners should set this target max.
llvm-svn: 160209
Simon Moll