With VectorType supporting scalable dimensions, we don't need many of
the operations currently present in ArmSVE, like mask generation and
basic arithmetic instructions. Therefore, this patch also gets
rid of those.
Having built-in scalable vector support also simplifies the lowering of
scalable vector dialects down to LLVMIR.
Scalable dimensions are indicated with the scalable dimensions
between square brackets:
vector<[4]xf32>
Is a scalable vector of 4 single precission floating point elements.
More generally, a VectorType can have a set of fixed-length dimensions
followed by a set of scalable dimensions:
vector<2x[4x4]xf32>
Is a vector with 2 scalable 4x4 vectors of single precission floating
point elements.
The scale of the scalable dimensions can be obtained with the Vector
operation:
%vs = vector.vscale
This change is being discussed in the discourse RFC:
https://llvm.discourse.group/t/rfc-add-built-in-support-for-scalable-vector-types/4484
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111819
Currently the builtin dialect is the default namespace used for parsing
and printing. As such module and func don't need to be prefixed.
In the case of some dialects that defines new regions for their own
purpose (like SpirV modules for example), it can be beneficial to
change the default dialect in order to improve readability.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107236
Historically the builtin dialect has had an empty namespace. This has unfortunately created a very awkward situation, where many utilities either have to special case the empty namespace, or just don't work at all right now. This revision adds a namespace to the builtin dialect, and starts to cleanup some of the utilities to no longer handle empty namespaces. For now, the assembly form of builtin operations does not require the `builtin.` prefix. (This should likely be re-evaluated though)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105149
An `unrealized_conversion_cast` operation represents an unrealized conversion
from one set of types to another, that is used to enable the inter-mixing of
different type systems. This operation should not be attributed any special
representational or execution semantics, and is generally only intended to be
used to satisfy the temporary intermixing of type systems during the conversion
of one type system to another.
This operation was discussed in the following RFC(and ODM):
https://llvm.discourse.group/t/open-meeting-1-14-dialect-conversion-and-type-conversion-the-question-of-cast-operations/
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94832
