The purpose of this patch is to expose more information about ImmLeaf-like
PatLeaf's so that GlobalISel can learn to import them. Previously, ImmLeaf
could only be used to test int64_t's produced by sign-extending an APInt.
Other tests on immediates had to use the generic PatLeaf and extract the
constant using C++.
With this patch, tablegen will know how to generate predicates for APInt,
and APFloat. This will allow it to 'do the right thing' for both SelectionDAG
and GlobalISel which require different methods of extracting the immediate
from the IR.
This is NFC for SelectionDAG since the new code is equivalent to the
previous code. It's also NFC for FastISel because FastIselShouldIgnore is 1
for the ImmLeaf subclasses. Enabling FastIselShouldIgnore == 0 for these new
subclasses will require a significant re-factor of FastISel.
For GlobalISel, it's currently NFC because the relevant code to import the
affected rules is not yet present. This will be added in a later patch.
Depends on D36086
I am no expert on this, but would the comment be better as 'Is the data type... "
The 'Should the data... " seems to suggest an uncertainty (not sure), which is not the case here.