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authorEli Friedman <eli.friedman@gmail.com>2009-05-24 20:32:10 +0000
committerEli Friedman <eli.friedman@gmail.com>2009-05-24 20:32:10 +0000
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Add a comment which should hopefully make the purpose of this method a
bit clearer. llvm-svn: 72374
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diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeVectorOps.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeVectorOps.cpp
index b6f74aea41a..693ac68e30b 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeVectorOps.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeVectorOps.cpp
@@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ SDValue VectorLegalizer::LegalizeOp(SDValue Op) {
}
SDValue VectorLegalizer::PromoteVectorOp(SDValue Op) {
+ // Vector "promotion" is basically just bitcasting and doing the operation
+ // in a different type. For example, x86 promotes ISD::AND on v2i32 to
+ // v1i64.
MVT VT = Op.getValueType();
assert(Op.getNode()->getNumValues() == 1 &&
"Can't promote a vector with multiple results!");
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