s.egerton added a comment. Sorry I misread your original comment.
These functions exist so that we can guarantee that these particular instructions will be emitted; the other option was LLVM IR intrinsics and Clang builtins, this was the other patch (https://reviews.llvm.org/D66479). We are planning on abandoning that patch in favour of this one after the discussions on the patch and the mailing list. CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D67661/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D67661 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
