[llvm-dev] [ARM] [NEON] Changes to the vld and vst intrinsics

[Jeroen Ketema via llvm-dev]

Dear all,

This is a heads-up regarding a change in the definition of the ARM neon 
vld and vst intrinsics, mostly to solicit whether there are any 
objections to this change.

The following patches:

http://reviews.llvm.org/D12985
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13127

change the interface of the vld[1234], vld[234]lane, and vst[1234], 
vst[234]lane ARM neon intrinsics and associate an address space with the 
pointer that these intrinsics take.  This changed, for example,

<2 x i32> @llvm.arm.neon.vld1.v2i32(i8*, i32)

is changed to

<2 x i32> @llvm.arm.neon.vld1.v2i32.p0i8(i8*, i32)

This resolves an issue in the ARM Target where address spaces were only 
partially taken into account during lowering of interleaved loads and 
stores (see D12985 for further discussion).

As asked above, would there be any objection to making this change? Note 
that the change does to alter the intrinsics exposed by clang, as before 
only the address space 0 versions of the intrinsics are exposed.

Regards,

  Jeroen

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