[PPC64LE] Implement little-endian semantics for vec_mul[eo]
The PowerPC vector-multiply-even and vector-multiply-odd instructions are defined architecturally with a big-endian bias, in that the vector element numbering is assumed to be "left to right" regardless of whether the processor is in big-endian or little-endian mode. This definition is unnatural for little-endian code generation. To facilitate ease of porting, the vec_mule and vec_mulo interfacs are designed to use natural element ordering, so that elements are numbered according to little-endian design principles when code is generated for a little-endian target. The desired semantics can be achieved by using the opposite instruction for little-endian mode. That is, when a call to vec_mule appears in the code, a vector-multiply-odd is generated, and when a call to vec_mulo appears in the code, a vector-multiply-even is generated. The correctness of this code is tested by the new mult-even-odd.c test added in a previous patch. I plan to later make the existing ppc32 Altivec compile-time tests work for ppc64 and ppc64le as well. llvm-svn: 210337
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