apply Eli's patch for PR2165 and provide a testcase.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@57625 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/VMCore/ConstantFold.cpp b/lib/VMCore/ConstantFold.cpp
index 93ee7fe..fcbda21 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/ConstantFold.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/ConstantFold.cpp
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ static Constant *FoldBitCast(Constant *V, const Type *DestTy) {
       if (ConstantVector *CV = dyn_cast<ConstantVector>(V))
         return BitCastConstantVector(CV, DestPTy);
     }
+
+    // Canonicalize scalar-to-vector bitcasts into vector-to-vector bitcasts
+    // This allows for other simplifications (although some of them
+    // can only be handled by Analysis/ConstantFolding.cpp).
+    if (isa<ConstantInt>(V) || isa<ConstantFP>(V))
+      return ConstantExpr::getBitCast(ConstantVector::get(&V, 1), DestPTy);
   }
   
   // Finally, implement bitcast folding now.   The code below doesn't handle