The code comments indicate that no effort has been spent on
handling load/stores when the size isn't a multiple of the
byte size correctly. However, the code only avoided types
smaller than 8 bits. So for example a load of an i28 could
still be considered as a candidate for vectorization.
This patch adjusts the code to behave according to the code
comment.
The test case used to hit the following assert when
trying to use "cast" an i32 to i28 using CreateBitOrPointerCast:
opt: ../lib/IR/Instructions.cpp:2565: Assertion `castIsValid(op, S, Ty) && "Invalid cast!"' failed.
#0 PrintStackTraceSignalHandler(void*)
#1 SignalHandler(int)
#2 restore_rt
#3 GI_raise
#4 GI_abort
#5 GI___assert_fail
#6 llvm::CastInst::Create(llvm::Instruction::CastOps, llvm::Value*, llvm::Type*, llvm::Twine const&, llvm::Instruction*)
#7 llvm::IRBuilder<llvm::ConstantFolder, llvm::IRBuilderDefaultInserter>::CreateBitOrPointerCast(llvm::Value*, llvm::Type*, llvm::Twine const&)
#8 (anonymous namespace)::Vectorizer::vectorizeLoadChain(llvm::ArrayRef<llvm::Instruction*>, llvm::SmallPtrSet<llvm::Instruction*, 16u>*)