[LLVMdev] NEON intrinsics

Bob Wilson bob.wilson at apple.com
Tue Sep 21 12:30:42 PDT 2010


On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Renato Golin wrote:

> On 21 September 2010 20:02, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> wrote:
>> That code is to support reading old bitcode files containing intrinsics that no longer exist or that have different arguments/usage than in previous versions of llvm.  It's not a validation pass, and it's not relevant to any new IR.  It's only for backward compatibility.
> 
> Oh, I see. So we should also change ARMInstrNEON.td that still have
> the intrinsic names on the definitions (ie. is still possible to
> generate those intrinsics at all?).

The intrinsics that have been removed are no longer defined, so I don't see how ARMInstrNEON.td could be using them.  I really don't know what you're referring to, though.



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