[PPC64LE] Implement little-endian semantics for vec_pack family
The PowerPC vector-pack 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_pack and related interfaces 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 vec_pack calls are implemented as calls to vec_perm, specifying selection of the odd-numbered vector elements. For little endian, this means the odd-numbered elements counting from the right end of the register. Since the underlying instructions count from the left end, we must instead select the even-numbered vector elements for little endian to achieve the desired semantics. The correctness of this code is tested by the new pack.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: 210340
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