[GlobalISel] Support vector-of-pointers in LLT

This fixes PR32471.

As comment 10 on that bug report highlights
(https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=32471#c10), there are quite a
few different defendable design tradeoffs that could be made, including
not representing pointers at all in LLT.

I decided to go for representing vector-of-pointer as a concept in LLT,
while keeping the size of the LLT type 64 bits (this is an increase from
48 bits before). My rationale for keeping pointers explicit is that on
some targets probably it's very handy to have the distinction between
pointer and non-pointer (e.g. 68K has a different register bank for
pointers IIRC). If we keep a scalar pointer, it probably is easiest to
also have a vector-of-pointers to keep LLT relatively conceptually clean
and orthogonal, while we don't have a very strong reason to break that
orthogonality. Once we gain more experience on the use of LLT, we can
of course reconsider this direction.

Rejecting vector-of-pointer types in the IRTranslator is also an option
to avoid the crash reported in PR32471, but that is only a very
short-term solution; also needs quite a bit of code tweaks in places,
and is probably fragile. Therefore I didn't consider this the best
option.

llvm-svn: 300535

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/GlobalISel/arm64-fallback.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/GlobalISel/arm64-fallback.ll
index e40199d82c9..71ea9d54f64 100644
--- a/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/GlobalISel/arm64-fallback.ll
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/GlobalISel/arm64-fallback.ll
@@ -154,3 +154,19 @@ continue:
 define fp128 @test_quad_dump() {
   ret fp128 0xL00000000000000004000000000000000
 }
+
+; FALLBACK-WITH-REPORT-ERR: remark: <unknown>:0:0: unable to legalize instruction: %vreg0<def>(p0) = G_EXTRACT_VECTOR_ELT %vreg1, %vreg2; (in function: vector_of_pointers_extractelement)
+; FALLBACK-WITH-REPORT-ERR: warning: Instruction selection used fallback path for vector_of_pointers_extractelement
+; FALLBACK-WITH-REPORT-OUT-LABEL: vector_of_pointers_extractelement:
+define void @vector_of_pointers_extractelement() {
+  %dummy = extractelement <2 x i16*> undef, i32 0
+  ret void
+}
+
+; FALLBACK-WITH-REPORT-ERR: remark: <unknown>:0:0: unable to legalize instruction: %vreg0<def>(<2 x p0>) = G_INSERT_VECTOR_ELT %vreg1, %vreg2, %vreg3; (in function: vector_of_pointers_insertelement
+; FALLBACK-WITH-REPORT-ERR: warning: Instruction selection used fallback path for vector_of_pointers_insertelement
+; FALLBACK-WITH-REPORT-OUT-LABEL: vector_of_pointers_insertelement:
+define void @vector_of_pointers_insertelement() {
+  %dummy = insertelement <2 x i16*> undef, i16* null, i32 0
+  ret void
+}