<div class="doc_text">
<p>LLVM supports the notion of an "intrinsic function". These functions have
-well known names and semantics and are required to follow certain
-restrictions. Overall, these instructions represent an extension mechanism for
-the LLVM language that does not require changing all of the transformations in
-LLVM to add to the language (or the bytecode reader/writer, the parser,
+well known names and semantics and are required to follow certain restrictions.
+Overall, these intrinsics represent an extension mechanism for the LLVM
+language that does not require changing all of the transformations in LLVM to
+add to the language (or the bytecode reader/writer, the parser,
etc...).</p>
<p>Intrinsic function names must all start with an "<tt>llvm.</tt>" prefix. This
function. Additionally, because intrinsic functions are part of the LLVM
language, it is required that they all be documented here if any are added.</p>
+<p>Some intrinsic functions can be overloaded. That is, the intrinsic represents
+a family of functions that perform the same operation but on different data
+types. This is most frequent with the integer types. Since LLVM can represent
+over 8 million different integer types, there is a way to declare an intrinsic
+that can be overloaded based on its arguments. Such intrinsics will have the
+names of the arbitrary types encoded into the intrinsic function name, each
+preceded by a period. For example, the <tt>llvm.ctpop</tt> function can take an
+integer of any width. This leads to a family of functions such as
+<tt>i32 @llvm.ctpop.i8(i8 %val)</tt> and <tt>i32 @llvm.ctpop.i29(i29 %val)</tt>.
+</p>
+
-<p>To learn how to add an intrinsic function, please see the <a
-href="ExtendingLLVM.html">Extending LLVM Guide</a>.
+<p>To learn how to add an intrinsic function, please see the
+<a href="ExtendingLLVM.html">Extending LLVM Guide</a>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<h5>Syntax:</h5>
+<p>This is an overloaded intrinsic function. You can use bswap on any integer
+type that is an even number of bytes (i.e. BitWidth % 16 == 0). Note the suffix
+that includes the type for the result and the operand.
<pre>
- declare i16 @llvm.bswap.i16(i16 <id>)
- declare i32 @llvm.bswap.i32(i32 <id>)
- declare i64 @llvm.bswap.i64(i64 <id>)
+ declare i16 @llvm.bswap.i16.i16(i16 <id>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.bswap.i32.i32(i32 <id>)
+ declare i64 @llvm.bswap.i64.i32(i64 <id>)
</pre>
<h5>Overview:</h5>
<p>
-The '<tt>llvm.bwsap</tt>' family of intrinsics is used to byteswap a 16, 32 or
-64 bit quantity. These are useful for performing operations on data that is not
-in the target's native byte order.
+The '<tt>llvm.bwsap</tt>' family of intrinsics is used to byteswap integer
+values with an even number of bytes (positive multiple of 16 bits). These are
+useful for performing operations on data that is not in the target's native
+byte order.
</p>
<h5>Semantics:</h5>
<p>
-The <tt>llvm.bswap.16</tt> intrinsic returns an i16 value that has the high
+The <tt>llvm.bswap.16.i16</tt> intrinsic returns an i16 value that has the high
and low byte of the input i16 swapped. Similarly, the <tt>llvm.bswap.i32</tt>
intrinsic returns an i32 value that has the four bytes of the input i32
swapped, so that if the input bytes are numbered 0, 1, 2, 3 then the returned
-i32 will have its bytes in 3, 2, 1, 0 order. The <tt>llvm.bswap.i64</tt>
-intrinsic extends this concept to 64 bits.
+i32 will have its bytes in 3, 2, 1, 0 order. The <tt>llvm.bswap.i48.i48</tt>,
+<tt>llvm.bswap.i64.i64</tt> and other intrinsics extend this concept to
+additional even-byte lengths (6 bytes, 8 bytes and more, respectively).
</p>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<h5>Syntax:</h5>
+<p>This is an overloaded intrinsic. You can use llvm.ctpop on any integer bit
+width. Not all targets support all bit widths however.
<pre>
- declare i8 @llvm.ctpop.i8 (i8 <src>)
- declare i16 @llvm.ctpop.i16(i16 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctpop.i8 (i8 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctpop.i16(i16 <src>)
declare i32 @llvm.ctpop.i32(i32 <src>)
- declare i64 @llvm.ctpop.i64(i64 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctpop.i64(i64 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctpop.i256(i256 <src>)
</pre>
<h5>Overview:</h5>
<div class="doc_text">
<h5>Syntax:</h5>
+<p>This is an overloaded intrinsic. You can use <tt>llvm.ctlz</tt> on any
+integer bit width. Not all targets support all bit widths however.
<pre>
- declare i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8 (i8 <src>)
- declare i16 @llvm.ctlz.i16(i16 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctlz.i8 (i8 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctlz.i16(i16 <src>)
declare i32 @llvm.ctlz.i32(i32 <src>)
- declare i64 @llvm.ctlz.i64(i64 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctlz.i64(i64 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.ctlz.i256(i256 <src>)
</pre>
<h5>Overview:</h5>
<div class="doc_text">
<h5>Syntax:</h5>
+<p>This is an overloaded intrinsic. You can use <tt>llvm.cttz</tt> on any
+integer bit width. Not all targets support all bit widths however.
<pre>
- declare i8 @llvm.cttz.i8 (i8 <src>)
- declare i16 @llvm.cttz.i16(i16 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.cttz.i8 (i8 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.cttz.i16(i16 <src>)
declare i32 @llvm.cttz.i32(i32 <src>)
- declare i64 @llvm.cttz.i64(i64 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.cttz.i64(i64 <src>)
+ declare i32 @llvm.cttz.i256(i256 <src>)
</pre>
<h5>Overview:</h5>