InstCombine: Canonicalize addrspacecast between different element types

[oota-llvm.git] / docs / Vectorizers.rst

diff --git a/docs/Vectorizers.rst b/docs/Vectorizers.rst
index 61ebca2bb529f41088385edb1ff310589a71d0a4..887ccaa8f8151b99d145afba0235bde5f58ad835 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/Vectorizers.rst
+++ b/docs/Vectorizers.rst
@@ -182,11 +182,14 @@ that scatter/gathers memory.
 
 .. code-block:: c++
 
-  int foo(int *A, int *B, int n, int k) {
-    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
-      A[i*7] += B[i*k];
+  int foo(int * A, int * B, int n) {
+    for (intptr_t i = 0; i < n; ++i)
+        A[i] += B[i * 4];
   }
 
+In many situations the cost model will inform LLVM that this is not beneficial
+and LLVM will only vectorize such code if forced with "-mllvm -force-vector-width=#".
+
 Vectorization of Mixed Types
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^