if (NumElts == 1)
return LegalizeKind(TypeScalarizeVector, EltVT);
- // Try to widen vector elements until a legal type is found.
+ // Try to widen vector elements until the element type is a power of two and
+ // promote it to a legal type later on, for example:
+ // <3 x i8> -> <4 x i8> -> <4 x i32>
if (EltVT.isInteger()) {
// Vectors with a number of elements that is not a power of two are always
- // widened, for example <3 x float> -> <4 x float>.
+ // widened, for example <3 x i8> -> <4 x i8>.
if (!VT.isPow2VectorType()) {
NumElts = (unsigned)NextPowerOf2(NumElts);
EVT NVT = EVT::getVectorVT(Context, EltVT, NumElts);