[llvm-dev] Heads-up: Handling target-specific intrinsics in InstCombine

[Nicolai Hähnle via llvm-dev]

Hello,

this mail is to raise awareness of https://reviews.llvm.org/D81728,
which is substantial enough of a conceptual change that it should
probably at least be mentioned in llvm-dev.

InstCombine has dealt with target-specific intrinsics for a long time,
since its fix-point iteration is arguably the right place to do so. A
downside is that there's a pull to add an increasing amount of code
into lib/Transforms/InstCombine/ that really is target-specific.

What the aforementioned change does is provide a target hook via
TargetTransformInfo, and move the handling of all target intrinsics
for InstCombine purposes into the corresponding lib/Target/$foo/
directory via the hook, thus cleaning up the core of InstCombine.

Cheers,
Nicolai
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