Loads/stores of some NEON vector types are promoted to other vector
types with different lane sizes but same vector size. This is not a
problem in little-endian but, when in big-endian, it requires
additional byte reversals required to preserve the lane ordering
while keeping the right endianness of the data inside each lane.
For example:
%1 = load <4 x half>, <4 x half>* %p
results in the following assembly:
ld1 { v0.2s }, [x1]
rev32 v0.4h, v0.4h
This patch changes the promotion of these loads/stores so that the
actual vector load/store (LD1/ST1) takes care of the endianness
correctly and there is no need for further byte reversals. The
previous code now results in the following assembly:
ld1 { v0.4h }, [x1]
Could you use changeVectorElementTypeToInteger or something like that rather than listing out all the types individually?