The constant folder didn't know how to always fold bitcasts of constant integer
vectors. In particular, it was unable to handle the case where a constant vector
had some undef elements, and the resulting (i.e. bitcasted) vector type had more
elements than the original vector type.
Example:
%cast = bitcast <2 x i64><i64 undef, i64 2> to <4 x i32>
On a little endian target, %cast could have been folded to:
<4 x i32><i32 undef, i32 undef, i32 2, i32 0>
This patch improves the folding logic by teaching how to correctly propagate
undef elements in the folded vector.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24301
llvm-svn: 281343
InstSimplify doesn't always know how to fold a bitcast of a constant vector.
In particular, the logic in InstSimplify doesn't know how to handle the case
where the constant vector in input contains some undef elements, and the
number of elements is smaller than the number of elements of the bitcast
vector type.
llvm-svn: 281332
Andrea Di Biagio