[llvm-dev] vector wideing for vector SETCC / VSELECT

[Jonas Paulsson via llvm-dev]

Hi Eli (and all),

There is on SystemZ a similar problem to that of the sext/zext 
operations on partial vectors, that we just handled with vector 
widening. The same problem of many useless instructions happen with 
vector compare / select instructions if the vector registers only 
contain a few elements.

This seems a bit trickier. I tried to return TypeWidenVector in 
getPreferredVectorAction() for vectors of i1s, but this didn't seem to 
work at all - this actually ended up giving TypeSplitVector for the v2i1 
vector, which resulted in an infinite loop even.

So I wanted to say "if doing a vector compare & select, just work with 
the full registers" (vector widening).

I don't have any idea what to do other than trying to do something 
custom or so. Does anyone have any advice to give on this?

thanks

/Jonas