[llvm] [LLVM][IR] Add textual shorthand for specifying constant vector splats. (PR #74620)

[Nikita Popov via llvm-commits]

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@@ -5740,14 +5767,15 @@ bool LLParser::convertValIDToValue(Type *Ty, ValID &ID, Value *&V,
       V = NoCFIValue::get(cast<GlobalValue>(V));
     return V == nullptr;
   case ValID::t_APSInt:
-    if (!Ty->isIntegerTy())
+    if (!Ty->isIntOrIntVectorTy())
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nikic wrote:

I don't really get why these changes are needed. Isn't the value parsing itself still performed with the scalar type?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/74620