[LLVMdev] Other Intrinsics?

Aaron Gray angray at beeb.net
Tue Nov 27 09:15:33 PST 2007


> Do you have plans to add other intrinsics?  I'm curious as to why there 
> is an llvm.sin intrinsic and an llvm.cos intrinsic, but no llvm.atan 
> intrinsic.  Why is there an llvm.pow intrinsic but no llvm.log 
> intrinsic?  Also, have you thought about integer intrinsics like 
> multiprecision multiply (u32xu32->u64) and multiprecision divide 
> (u64/u32->(dividend:u32,remainder:u32))?

It would be good if intrinsics could be added via a library approach.
This would be good for supporting new platform and language requirements.
Although describing or adding optimization code/phases maybe an issue.

Aaron




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