Add support to scalar replacement for partial vector accesses of an alloca, e.g.
a union of a float, <2 x float>, and <4 x float>. This mostly comes up with the
use of vector intrinsics, especially in NEON when programmers know the layout of
the register file. This enables codegen to eliminate a lot of the subregister
traffic it would otherwise generate.
This commit only enables this for a small number of floating-point cases, but a
lot more integer cases. I assume this is okay for all ports, but I did not do
extensive testing of the quality of code involving i512 vectors and the like. If
there is a use case where this generates worse code than before, let me know and
we can scale it back.
This fixes <rdar://problem/9036264>.
llvm-svn: 127317
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