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Hi, During the discussion on introducing scalable vectors we established that we could use the canonical IR form for splats of scalable vector types (insert element into lane 0 of an undef vector, shuffle that with another undef vector of the same type and a zeroinitializer mask). We do run into a problem for lowering to SelectionDAG however, since the canonical form there is a BUILD_VECTOR with

Hi llvm-dev, I just tried to implement a target-specific dag combine to preempt a generic dag combine, and I was surprised to see that it didn't work because the generic dag combines are run first. Does anyone know the rationale for running the generic dag combines first? I would have expected the target dag combines to run first because they have more specific information about what combines

Just spitballing... why not have a splat construct straight through LLVM? It would make the IR more readable, opposed to the insert+shuffle method. On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 19:06 Amara Emerson via llvm-dev < llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > +1 to a new node, we’d very likely do the same thing for GlobalISel and > move to a canonical spat representation for all targets. > >

Hi, We've been working for the last two years on support for ARM's Scalable Vector Extension in LLVM, and we'd like to upstream our work. We've had to make several design decisions without community input, and would like to discuss the major changes we've made. To help with the discussions, I've attached a technical document (also in plain text below) to describe the