[llvm-commits] [llvm] r92939 - /llvm/trunk/include/llvm/IntrinsicsX86.td

[David Greene]

On Thursday 07 January 2010 13:56, Evan Cheng wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:47 AM, David Greene wrote:
> > Author: greened
> > Date: Thu Jan  7 13:47:43 2010
> > New Revision: 92939
> >
> > URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=92939&view=rev
> > Log:
> >
> > Add some "missing" instrinsics to make the SSE intrinsic set a bit more
> > orthogonal.
>
> Why do we need them? Frontend should (and llvm-gcc and clang do) lower than
> to llvm instructions.

What llvm intrinsics?

We don't "need" them in the sense of functionality, but gcc defines them
so it makes sense to support them.

Adding them also makes the SIMD reorganization a bit simpler.

                                       -Dave