[llvm-dev] [RFC] Supporting ARM's SVE in LLVM

Renato Golin via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Nov 25 07:15:12 PST 2016


On 25 November 2016 at 14:42, Paul Walker via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> The above is the stylistic answer but from a more practical point of view
> there will be many instances where "vscale" gets queried.  Folds that
> currently exist for ConstantInt will need to have "vscale" variants.  We
> concluded using an intrinsic would pollute the code base a lot more in the
> long run when compared to the new constant approached.

Hi Paul,

Can you give us examples on where the vscale will be constant-folded?

cheers,
--renato


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