[LLVMdev] NEON intrinsics

Renato Golin
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:59:23 -0000

On 21 September 2010 19:19, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com>
wrote:
> There's no reason to have clang builtins for operations that can be
represented directly.  It just bloats the compiler.  Please don't do that.

Ok, so why are some in there already? There is a validation pass (in a
pretty generic place, not ARM related: VMCore/AutoUpgrade.cpp) that
filters them out as plain instructions. Shouldn't them get removed as
well?


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--renato

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