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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2006-04-13 16:48:00 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2006-04-13 16:48:00 +0000
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add a note, move an altivec todo to the altivec list.
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@@ -138,3 +138,13 @@ C = vector_shuffle A, B, <0, 1, 2, 4>
-> C = vsldoi A, B, 4
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+extract_vector_elt of an arbitrary constant vector can be done with the
+following instructions:
+
+vTemp = vec_splat(v0,2); // 2 is the element the src is in.
+vec_ste(&destloc,0,vTemp);
+
+We can do an arbitrary non-constant value by using lvsr/perm/ste.
+
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//