[PowerPC] ABI support for non-Altivec vector types
This patch adds support for passing arguments of non-Altivec vector type (i.e. defined via attribute ((vector_size (...)))) on powerpc64-linux. While such types are not mentioned in the formal ABI document, this patch implements a calling convention compatible with GCC: - Vectors of size < 16 bytes are passed in a GPR - Vectors of size > 16 bytes are passed via reference Note that vector types with a number of elements that is not a power of 2 are not supported by GCC, so there is no pre-existing ABI to follow. We choose to pass those (of size < 16) as if widened to the next power of two, so they might end up in a vector register or in a GPR. (Sizes > 16 are always passed via reference as well.) Reviewed by Hal Finkel. llvm-svn: 212734
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