This patch teaches clang to perform implicit scalar to vector conversions
when one of the operands of a binary vector expression is a scalar which
can be converted to the element type of the vector without truncation
following GCC's implementation.
If the (constant) scalar is can be casted safely, it is implicitly casted to the
vector elements type and splatted to produce a vector of the same type.
Contributions from: Petar Jovanovic
Reviewers: bruno, vkalintiris
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25866
llvm-svn: 302935
The z13 vector facility has an associated language extension,
closely modeled on AltiVec/VSX. The main differences are:
- vector long, vector float and vector pixel are not supported
- vector long long and vector double are supported (like VSX)
- comparison operators return a vector rather than a scalar integer
- shift operators behave like the OpenCL shift operators
- vector bool is only supported as argument to certain operators;
some operators allow mixing a bool with a non-bool vector
This patch adds clang support for the extension. It is closely modelled
on the AltiVec support. Similarly to the -faltivec option, there's a
new -fzvector option to enable the extensions (as well as an -mzvector
alias for compatibility with GCC). There's also a separate LangOpt.
The extension as implemented here is intended to be compatible with
the -mzvector extension recently implemented by GCC.
Based on a patch by Richard Sandiford.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11001
llvm-svn: 243642
Simon Dardis