There are two reasons this shouldn't be restricted to Power8 and up:
1. For XL compatibility
2. Because clang will expand comparison operators to these intrinsics*
*Without this patch, the following causes a selection error:
int test(vector signed long a, vector signed long b) {
return a < b;
}
This patch provides the handling for the intrinsics in the back
end and removes the Power8 guards from the predicate functions
(vec_{all|any}_{eq|ne|gt|ge|lt|le}).
Nemanja Ivanovic