This is the vector_size alternative to D88905.
This patch extends Clang to allow 'bool' as a valid vector element type (attribute vector_size).
This is intended as the canonical type for SIMD masks and facilitates clean vector intrinsic declarations.
Vectors of i1 are supported on IR level and below down to many SIMD ISAs, such as AVX512, ARM SVE (fixed vector length) and the VE target (NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA).
The RFC on cfe-dev: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-May/065434.html
Maybe “Unlike GCC,”? Not much in it though.