Hi,
Pat Haugen pointed out that the vbpermq instruction should preferably
have its "type" attribute set to vecperm, rather than vecsimple. This
patch makes that change.
Bootstrapped and tested on powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu with no
regressions, committed as obvious.
Thanks,
Bill
2017-01-18 Bill Schmidt <wschm...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* config/rs6000/altivec.md (altivec_vbpermq): Change "type"
attribute from vecsimple to vecperm.
(altivec_vbpermq2): Likewise.
Index: gcc/config/rs6000/altivec.md
===================================================================
--- gcc/config/rs6000/altivec.md (revision 244585)
+++ gcc/config/rs6000/altivec.md (working copy)
@@ -3680,7 +3680,7 @@
UNSPEC_VBPERMQ))]
"TARGET_P8_VECTOR"
"vbpermq %0,%1,%2"
- [(set_attr "type" "vecsimple")])
+ [(set_attr "type" "vecperm")])
; One of the vector API interfaces requires returning vector unsigned char.
(define_insn "altivec_vbpermq2"
@@ -3690,7 +3690,7 @@
UNSPEC_VBPERMQ))]
"TARGET_P8_VECTOR"
"vbpermq %0,%1,%2"
- [(set_attr "type" "vecsimple")])
+ [(set_attr "type" "vecperm")])
(define_insn "altivec_vbpermd"
[(set (match_operand:V2DI 0 "register_operand" "=v")
