[clang] [clang][docs] Revise documentation for `__builtin_reduce_(max|min)`. (PR #114637)

Matt Arsenault via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 13 10:45:18 PST 2024


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@@ -745,12 +745,10 @@ Let ``VT`` be a vector type and ``ET`` the element type of ``VT``.
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          Name                            Operation                                                              Supported element types
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- ET __builtin_reduce_max(VT a)           return x or y, whichever is larger; If exactly one argument is         integer and floating point types
-                                         a NaN, return the other argument. If both arguments are NaNs,
-                                         fmax() return a NaN.
- ET __builtin_reduce_min(VT a)           return x or y, whichever is smaller; If exactly one argument           integer and floating point types
-                                         is a NaN, return the other argument. If both arguments are
-                                         NaNs, fmax() return a NaN.
+ ET __builtin_reduce_max(VT a)           return the largest element of the vector. The floating point result    integer and floating point types
+                                         will always be a number unless all elements of the vector are NaN.
+ ET __builtin_reduce_min(VT a)           return the smallest element of the vector. The floating point result   integer and floating point types
+                                         will always be a number unless all elements of the vector are NaN.
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arsenm wrote:

This will not be true for a signaling nan for a 2 element vector with IEEE behavior for minnum/maxnum 

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/114637


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