[LLVMdev] 3 element vector type

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Sun Apr 22 18:28:49 PDT 2007


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Christopher Lamb wrote:
> We have a need for 3 element vector support. Locally I've added a new type to 
> MVT to support this. Is there any reason this shouldn't be contributed back 
> to the mainline?

That sounds good to me.  There are various assumptions that the vectors 
will be a power of two (mostly in the legalizer), that will need to be 
fixed.  However, non-power-of-two vectors would be a great improvement and 
definitely good for mainline.

-Chris

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