Change SelectionDAG type legalization to allow BUILD_VECTOR operands to be
promoted to legal types without changing the type of the vector. This is
following a suggestion from Duncan
(http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2009-February/019923.html).
The transformation that used to be done during type legalization is now
postponed to DAG legalization. This allows the BUILD_VECTORs to be optimized
and potentially handled specially by target-specific code.
It turns out that this is also consistent with an optimization done by the
DAG combiner: a BUILD_VECTOR and INSERT_VECTOR_ELT may be combined by
replacing one of the BUILD_VECTOR operands with the newly inserted element;
but INSERT_VECTOR_ELT allows its scalar operand to be larger than the
element type, with any extra high bits being implicitly truncated. The
result is a BUILD_VECTOR where one of the operands has a type larger the
the vector element type.
Any code that operates on BUILD_VECTORs may now need to be aware of the
potential type discrepancy between the vector element type and the
BUILD_VECTOR operands. This patch updates all of the places that I could
find to handle that case.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@68996 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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