llvm dev - Aug 2017 - Custom call lowering - where?

The CallingConv.td file can specify CCCustom and ISelLowering has
LowerFormalArguments. The existing uses of CCCustom pick a register to pass
an unmodified argument in and LowerFormalArguments is mostly concerned with
marking registers as live, though I think provides enough information that
I can munge the DAG there.

I would like to pass a scalar type (marked as a register class) in a vector
register. I essentially want to wrap the argument in a SCALAR_TO_VECTOR ISD
node before calling a function and unwrap it using EXTRACT_VECTOR_ELT or
similar within the function.

Where should I introduce these additional nodes, or should it be possible
to achieve this via CCCustom?

Cheers!

Jon
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On 8/10/2017 1:49 AM, Jon Chesterfield via llvm-dev
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> The CallingConv.td file can specify CCCustom and ISelLowering has 
> LowerFormalArguments. The existing uses of CCCustom pick a register to 
> pass an unmodified argument in and LowerFormalArguments is mostly 
> concerned with marking registers as live, though I think provides 
> enough information that I can munge the DAG there.
>
> I would like to pass a scalar type (marked as a register class) in a 
> vector register. I essentially want to wrap the argument in a 
> SCALAR_TO_VECTOR ISD node before calling a function and unwrap it 
> using EXTRACT_VECTOR_ELT or similar within the function.
>
> Where should I introduce these additional nodes, or should it be 
> possible to achieve this via CCCustom?
See RetCC_ARM_APCS_Custom_f64/ARMTargetLowering::LowerCallResult for an 
straightforward example of how CCCustom works in practice.  You can 
generate whatever conversion code you need in your call lowering code.

-Eli

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