From 4c8b24812ddcd1dedaca343a6d4e76f91f398981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Divacky
__builtin_shufflevector is used to expression generic vector +
__builtin_shufflevector is used to express generic vector permutation/shuffle/swizzle operations. This builtin is also very important for the implementation of various target-specific header files like <xmmintrin.h>. @@ -310,6 +311,47 @@ with the same element type as vec1/vec2 but that has an element count equal to the number of indices specified.
+Query for this feature with __has_builtin(__builtin_shufflevector).
+ + +__builtin_unreachable is used to indicate that a specific point in +the program cannot be reached, even if the compiler might otherwise think it +can. This is useful to improve optimization and eliminates certain warnings. +For example, without the __builtin_unreachable in the example below, +the compiler assumes that the inline asm can fall through and prints a "function +declared 'noreturn' should not return" warning. +
+ +Syntax:
+ ++__builtin_unreachable() ++ +
Example of Use:
+ +
+void myabort(void) __attribute__((noreturn));
+void myabort(void) {
+ asm("int3");
+ __builtin_unreachable();
+}
+
+
+Description:
+ +The __builtin_unreachable() builtin has completely undefined behavior. Since +it has undefined behavior, it is a statement that it is never reached and the +optimizer can take advantage of this to produce better code. This builtin takes +no arguments and produces a void result. +
+ +Query for this feature with __has_builtin(__builtin_unreachable).
+ +