[PATCH] D92715: [Clang][RISCV] Define RISC-V V builtin types

[Kito Cheng via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

kito-cheng added inline comments.


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Comment at: clang/include/clang/Basic/RISCVVTypes.def:67
+RVV_VECTOR_TYPE_INT("__rvv_int8m2_t",  RvvInt8m2,  RvvInt8m2Ty,  16,  8, 1, true)
+RVV_VECTOR_TYPE_INT("__rvv_int8m4_t",  RvvInt8m4,  RvvInt8m4Ty,  32,  8, 1, true)
+RVV_VECTOR_TYPE_INT("__rvv_int8m8_t",  RvvInt8m8,  RvvInt8m8Ty,  64,  8, 1, true)
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khchen wrote:
> evandro wrote:
> > craig.topper wrote:
> > > craig.topper wrote:
> > > > jrtc27 wrote:
> > > > > liaolucy wrote:
> > > > > > RISC-V V has too many types, more than 200. All types use builtin types? Is it possible to reduce the number of builtin types?
> > > > > Indeed this is madness, what's wrong with just using `__attribute__((vector_size(n)))` on the right type? We should not be encouraging people to write code with architecture-specific types... but if we _really_ need these because RISC-V GCC decided this is how RISC-V V is going to look them can we not just shove them all in a header as typedef's for the architecture-independent attributed types and push that complexity out of the compiler itself?
> > > > We are using <vscale x 1 x i64> to specify types in IR. The size of the fixed part is being used to control the LMUL parameter. There is currently no way to spell a scalable vector type in C in a generic way.
> > > > 
> > > > Alternatively I guess we could make LMUL a parameter to the intrinsic and create the scalable IR types in the frontend based on it?
> > > I do wonder why we bothered to have signed and unsigned types. The signedness of the operation should be carried in the intrinsic name.
> > Some integer operations distinguish between signed and unsigned.  
> > I do wonder why we bothered to have signed and unsigned types. The signedness of the operation should be carried in the intrinsic name.
> 
> I think the only good thing for supporting both signed and unsigned type is that are more readable and compiler can does type checking for programmer. 
> 
> maybe the alternative way is changing intrinsic naming rule like 
> 
> ```
> vint32m1_t a, b, c;
> a = vadd_i32m1(b, c);
> vuint32m1_t a, b, c;
> a = vadd_u32m1(b, c);
> vfloat32m1_t a, b, c;
> a = vadd_f32m1(b, c);
> ```
One quick thought about this, if the concern is too much built-in types are introduced in clang, maybe we could add a new attribute like `__attribute__((vector_size(n)))`, maybe named `__attribute__((riscv_scaleble_vector("[1|2|4|8|f2|f4|f8]")))`? and use that to define vector types like `typedef int __attribute__((riscv_scaleble_vector("2"))) vintm2_t`.


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