The basic idea to this is that a) having a single canonical type makes CSE easier, and b) many of our transforms are inconsistent about which types we end up with based on visit order.
I'm restricting this to constants as for non-constants, we'd have to decide whether the simplicity was worth extra instructions. For constants, there are no extra instructions.
We chose the canonical type as i64 arbitrarily. We might consider changing this to something else in the future if we have cause.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115387
There are certain loops like this below:
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
a[i] = b[i] + 1;
*inv = a[i];
}
that can only be vectorised if we are able to extract the last lane of the
vectorised form of 'a[i]'. For fixed width vectors this already works since
we know at compile time what the final lane is, however for scalable vectors
this is a different story. This patch adds support for extracting the last
lane from a scalable vector using a runtime determined lane value. I have
added support to VPIteration for runtime-determined lanes that still permit
the caching of values. I did this by introducing a new class called VPLane,
which describes the lane we're dealing with and provides interfaces to get
both the compile-time known lane and the runtime determined value. Whilst
doing this work I couldn't find any explicit tests for extracting the last
lane values of fixed width vectors so I added tests for both scalable and
fixed width vectors.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95139
Philip Reames