[PATCH] D78194: [ARM] Add __bf16 as new Bfloat16 C Type

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This patch upstreams support for a new storage only bfloat16 C type.
This type is used to implement primitive support for bfloat16 data, in
line with the Bfloat16 extension of the Armv8.6-a architecture, as
detailed here:

https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/arm-architecture-developments-armv8-6-a

The bfloat type, and its properties is specified in the Arm C language
extension specification:

https://developer.arm.com/docs/ihi0055/d/procedure-call-standard-for-the-arm-64-bit-architecture

In detail this patch:

  introduces an opaque, storage-only C-type __bf16, which does not introduce a new LLVM IR type, but maps it to either i16 or half type.

This is part of a patch series, starting with command-line and Bfloat16
assembly support. The subsequent patches will upstream intrinsics
support for BFloat16, followed by Matrix Multiplication and the
remaining Virtualization features of the armv8.6-a architecture.

Based on work by:

- Luke Cheeseman
- Momchil Velikov
- labrinea
- Luke Geeson


Repository:
  rG LLVM Github Monorepo

https://reviews.llvm.org/D78194

Files:
  clang/docs/LanguageExtensions.rst
  clang/include/clang-c/Index.h
  clang/include/clang/AST/ASTContext.h
  clang/include/clang/AST/BuiltinTypes.def
  clang/include/clang/AST/Type.h
  clang/include/clang/Basic/Specifiers.h
  clang/include/clang/Basic/TargetBuiltins.h
  clang/include/clang/Basic/TargetInfo.h
  clang/include/clang/Basic/TokenKinds.def
  clang/include/clang/Sema/DeclSpec.h
  clang/include/clang/Serialization/ASTBitCodes.h
  clang/lib/AST/ASTContext.cpp
  clang/lib/AST/ItaniumMangle.cpp
  clang/lib/AST/MicrosoftMangle.cpp
  clang/lib/AST/NSAPI.cpp
  clang/lib/AST/PrintfFormatString.cpp
  clang/lib/AST/Type.cpp
  clang/lib/AST/TypeLoc.cpp
  clang/lib/Basic/TargetInfo.cpp
  clang/lib/Basic/Targets/AArch64.cpp
  clang/lib/Basic/Targets/AArch64.h
  clang/lib/Basic/Targets/ARM.cpp
  clang/lib/Basic/Targets/ARM.h
  clang/lib/CodeGen/CGBuiltin.cpp
  clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDebugInfo.cpp
  clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenTypeCache.h
  clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenTypes.cpp
  clang/lib/CodeGen/ItaniumCXXABI.cpp
  clang/lib/CodeGen/TargetInfo.cpp
  clang/lib/Format/FormatToken.cpp
  clang/lib/Index/USRGeneration.cpp
  clang/lib/Parse/ParseDecl.cpp
  clang/lib/Parse/ParseExpr.cpp
  clang/lib/Parse/ParseExprCXX.cpp
  clang/lib/Parse/ParseTentative.cpp
  clang/lib/Sema/DeclSpec.cpp
  clang/lib/Sema/SemaChecking.cpp
  clang/lib/Sema/SemaDecl.cpp
  clang/lib/Sema/SemaOverload.cpp
  clang/lib/Sema/SemaTemplateVariadic.cpp
  clang/lib/Sema/SemaType.cpp
  clang/lib/Serialization/ASTCommon.cpp
  clang/lib/Serialization/ASTReader.cpp
  clang/test/CodeGen/arm-mangle-16bit-float.cpp
  clang/test/Sema/arm-bfloat.cpp
  clang/tools/libclang/CXType.cpp

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