Summary:
As part of moving the argument lowering handling for bfloat arguments and
returns to the backend, this patch removes the code that was responsible for
handling the coercion of those arguments in Clang's Codegen.
Subscribers: kristof.beyls, danielkiss, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81837
Summary:
This patch upstreams support for a new storage only bfloat16 C type.
This type is used to implement primitive support for bfloat16 data, in
line with the Bfloat16 extension of the Armv8.6-a architecture, as
detailed here:
https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/arm-architecture-developments-armv8-6-a
The bfloat type, and its properties are specified in the Arm Architecture
Reference Manual:
https://developer.arm.com/docs/ddi0487/latest/arm-architecture-reference-manual-armv8-for-armv8-a-architecture-profile
In detail this patch:
- introduces an opaque, storage-only C-type __bf16, which introduces a new bfloat IR type.
This is part of a patch series, starting with command-line and Bfloat16
assembly support. The subsequent patches will upstream intrinsics
support for BFloat16, followed by Matrix Multiplication and the
remaining Virtualization features of the armv8.6-a architecture.
The following people contributed to this patch:
- Luke Cheeseman
- Momchil Velikov
- Alexandros Lamprineas
- Luke Geeson
- Simon Tatham
- Ties Stuij
Reviewers: SjoerdMeijer, rjmccall, rsmith, liutianle, RKSimon, craig.topper, jfb, LukeGeeson, fpetrogalli
Reviewed By: SjoerdMeijer
Subscribers: labrinea, majnemer, asmith, dexonsmith, kristof.beyls, arphaman, danielkiss, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76077
Ties Stuij