[llvm-dev] Legalizing vector types

[Sebastien Le Duc via llvm-dev]

Hi all,
I am working on a target that has support for v4i16 vectors, and no
support for v4i8 / v8i8 / v8i16

V4i8 is promoted to v4i16 which is nice
V8i16 is split to 2 x v4i16 which is nice as well

Now v8i8 is scalarized, which is not so nice.
Ideally I would like v8i8 to be first promoted to v8i16 then split to
2xv4i16 (or split to 2xV4i8 then promoted to 2xv4i16)

Is there a way to achieve that? I tried to figure out how to do it, but
the only way I found is to make v8i16 legal, and handle the splitting to
2xv4i16 as patterns, which looks to me to be a lot of useless work


Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Sebastien







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