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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>I have been able to adapt the main LLVM sources to work with vectors of 16 x FP16 values and I have introduced the ‘</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>v16f16</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ data type to CLang and LLVM, but I am stumped on how to get TableGen to recognise this type. At the moment I am trying to optimise the calling convention code, and whenever I refer to ‘</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>v16f16</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ I get a crash in TableGen (unrecognised type). Unfortunately I haven’t got my head around the innards of TableGen yet, so I am asking if anyone has any advice on how to add a new vector data type to TableGen?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>The main reason I need this is that OpenCL supports vectors with 16 elements for all supported scalar types, and the SHAVE processor does support FP16 (aka ‘</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>half</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’) data types. Although we don’t natively support 16 x FP16, I would like to optimise how values of this type are passed and returned; so any advice is appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>I have the same problem with ‘</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>v16f64</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’, although this type does not occur in any real code that I have found outside the OpenCL test-suite.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'> MartinO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>