[LLVMdev] type legalizer promoting BUILD_VECTORs

Eli Friedman eli.friedman at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 09:31:22 PST 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> wrote:
> An alternative would be to leave the current
> definition of BUILD_VECTOR but change the type legalizer to ignore the
> BUILD_VECTOR operands.

Won't work; if we don't promote the operands, we'll be left with nodes
with illegal result types, which PPC doesn't know how to generate.

-Eli



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