[llvm-commits] PATCH: new Value::getThruSplat API

[Dan Gohman]

On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Nick Lewycky wrote:

> This patch adds a new method on Value called getThruSplat() which returns the splatted value iff this is a ConstantValue with a splat, or 'this' otherwise. I demonstrate its usage by updating InstructionSimplify to uniformly handle splat vectors alongside ConstantInt values.

Looks reasonable to me.

How about "getScalarValue" instead of "getThruSplat"?
I don't have strong opinions about it though.

Dan