Improve the comment from r185794 (re: PromoteIntRes_BUILD_VECTOR)

In response to Duncan's review, I believe that the original comment was not as
clear as it could be. Hopefully, this is better.

llvm-svn: 185824

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeIntegerTypes.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeIntegerTypes.cpp
index df388981aed..76c028d078e 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeIntegerTypes.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeIntegerTypes.cpp
@@ -2931,8 +2931,10 @@ SDValue DAGTypeLegalizer::PromoteIntRes_BUILD_VECTOR(SDNode *N) {
   Ops.reserve(NumElems);
   for (unsigned i = 0; i != NumElems; ++i) {
     SDValue Op;
-    // It is possible for the operands to be larger than the result, for example,
-    // when the operands are promoted booleans and the result was an i1 vector.
+    // BUILD_VECTOR integer operand types are allowed to be larger than the
+    // result's element type. This may still be true after the promotion. For
+    // example, we might be promoting (<v?i1> = BV <i32>, <i32>, ...) to
+    // (v?i16 = BV <i32>, <i32>, ...), and we can't any_extend <i32> to <i16>.
     if (N->getOperand(i).getValueType().bitsLT(NOutVTElem))
       Op = DAG.getNode(ISD::ANY_EXTEND, dl, NOutVTElem, N->getOperand(i));
     else