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Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16464
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@269031
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/// the same bit size (e.g. f32 <-> i32). This can also be used for
/// int-to-int or fp-to-fp conversions, but that is a noop, deleted by
/// getNode().
+ ///
+ /// This operator is subtly different from the bitcast instruction from
+ /// LLVM-IR since this node may change the bits in the register. For
+ /// example, this occurs on big-endian NEON and big-endian MSA where the
+ /// layout of the bits in the register depends on the vector type and this
+ /// operator acts as a shuffle operation for some vector type combinations.
BITCAST,
/// ADDRSPACECAST - This operator converts between pointers of different