[llvm-dev] What is "splat" in BUILD_VECTOR?

[陳韋任 via llvm-dev]

Hi All,

  First of all, I am not native English speaker. While reading BUILD_VECTOR
related code, for example,
PPCTargetLowering::LowerBUILD_VECTOR, I see "splat" here and there. Could
someone explain what
it is (does splat mean the same thing across the whole code base)? Besides,
from my English dictionary,
I don't know why we call such thing as "splat"... :p

Regards,
chenwj

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Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Homepage: https://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj
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