Allow vector CONSTs
This patch allows (const ...) wrappers to be used for rtx vector
constants, as an alternative to const_vector. This is useful
for SVE, where the number of elements isn't known until runtime.
It could also be useful in future for fixed-length vectors, to
reduce the amount of memory needed to represent simple constants
with high element counts. However, one nice thing about keeping
it restricted to variable-length vectors is that there is never
any need to handle combinations of (const ...) and CONST_VECTOR.
2017-11-01 Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>
Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com>
David Sherwood <david.sherwood@arm.com>
gcc/
* doc/rtl.texi (const): Update description of address constants.
Say that vector constants are allowed too.
* common.md (E, F): Use CONSTANT_P instead of checking for
CONST_VECTOR.
* emit-rtl.c (gen_lowpart_common): Use const_vec_p instead of
checking for CONST_VECTOR.
* expmed.c (make_tree): Use build_vector_from_val for a CONST
VEC_DUPLICATE.
* expr.c (expand_expr_real_2): Check for vector modes instead
of checking for CONST_VECTOR.
* rtl.h (const_vec_p): New function.
(const_vec_duplicate_p): Check for a CONST VEC_DUPLICATE.
(unwrap_const_vec_duplicate): Handle them here too.
Co-Authored-By: Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: David Sherwood <david.sherwood@arm.com>
From-SVN: r254296