This patch changes the LowerSwitch pass so that when a flag is
passed (LoopUnswitch) the pass will only attempt to unswitch simple
switch statements (i.e. there are no ranges, each destination block is
unique) which are part of a loop. The purpose of this is to allow
vectorization of loops which is not possible at the moment due to
the presence of switch statements.
The LowerSwitch pass is now run just before the vectorizer, with
LoopUnswitch set to true. For simple switches, we create a series of
compares and branches which have a simpler structure which SimplifyCFG
can later replace with a switch again if the vectorizer made no changes.
The following tests have been added:
- LowerSwitch/simple-switches.ll: Tests the changes to LowerSwitch to replace switch statments in loops.
- LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-remove-switches.ll: Tests that we can vectorize loops with switch statements with scalable vectors. Also tests that where vectorization is not possible, that the switch statement is created again.
- LoopVectorize/remove-switches.ll: Ensures that we do not vectorize the loop if the target doesn't support masked loads & stores, where the cost would be too high.
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