[PPC64LE] Fix vec_sld semantics for little endian
The vec_sld interface provides access to the vsldoi instruction. Unlike most of the vec_* interfaces, we do not attempt to change the generated code for vec_sld based on the endian mode. It is too difficult to correctly infer the desired semantics because of different element types, and the corrected instruction sequence is expensive, involving loading a permute control vector and performing a generalized permute. For GCC, this was implemented as "Don't touch the vec_sld" implementation. When it came time for the LLVM implementation, I did the same thing. However, this was hasty and incorrect. In LLVM's version of altivec.h, vec_sld was previously defined in terms of the vec_perm interface. Because vec_perm semantics are adjusted for little endian, this means that leaving vec_sld untouched causes it to generate something different for LE than for BE. Not good. This patch adjusts the form of vec_perm that is used for vec_sld and vec_vsldoi, effectively undoing the modifications so that the same vsldoi instruction will be generated for both BE and LE. There is an accompanying back-end patch to take care of some small ripple effects caused by these changes. llvm-svn: 242297
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