PR 89213: Add better support for shifting vectors with 64-bit elements
This patch fixes PR target/89213 to allow better code to be generated to do
constant shifts of V2DI/V2DF vectors. Previously GCC would do constant shifts
of vectors with 64-bit elements by using:
XXSPLTIB 32,4
VEXTSB2D 0,0
VSRAD 2,2,0
I.e., the PowerPC does not have a VSPLTISD instruction to load -15..14 for the
64-bit shift count in one instruction. Instead, it would need to load a byte
and then convert it to 64-bit.
With this patch, GCC now realizes that the vector shift instructions will look
at the bottom 6 bits for the shift count, and it can use either a VSPLTISW or
XXSPLTIB instruction to load the shift count.
2024-09-17 Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>
gcc/
PR target/89213
* config/rs6000/altivec.md (UNSPEC_VECTOR_SHIFT): New unspec.
(VSHIFT_MODE): New mode iterator.
(vshift_code): New code iterator.
(vshift_attr): New code attribute.
(altivec_<mode>_<vshift_attr>_const): New pattern to optimize
vector long long/int shifts by a constant.
(altivec_<mode>_shift_const): New helper insn to load up a
constant used by the shift operation.
* config/rs6000/predicates.md (vector_shift_constant): New
predicate.