[llvm-commits] [PATCH] ARM: Add vaddl/vsubl intrinsics

[Bob Wilson]

On Dec 20, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Renato Golin <rengolin at systemcall.org> wrote:

> On 20 December 2012 17:53, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> wrote:
>> Sorry that I'm a bit behind in reviewing patches, but I don't think this is the right way to go.  We intentionally omitted those intrinsics because there is no need for them.  We can already represent those operations as combinations with vmovl.  Look at clang's <arm_neon.h> to see how they are implemented.
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> These are good points. It's been a while since I generated NEON
> instructions from IR and I quite forgot that most extensions work by
> pattern matching. I have no objection on reverting the patch, it's
> quite non-invasive and doesn't change anything.
> 
> Do we have tests for those patterns? If not, we should.

Yes, there are lots of them in test/CodeGen/ARM, e.g., in vadd.ll and vsub.ll.

> 
> Pete,
> 
> Can you generate those instructions as Bob described? I suggest we
> revert the patch now and you try to generate them as patterns, and
> create some tests to make sure they are correctly generated and don't
> regress in the future.
> 
> --
> cheers,
> --renato
> 
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