Sanjay Patel eab9da7e7d [InstCombine] allow undef elements when forming splat from chain of insertelements
We allow forming a splat (broadcast) shuffle, but we were conservatively limiting
that to cases where all elements of the vector are specified. It should be safe
from a codegen perspective to allow undefined lanes of the vector because the
expansion of a splat shuffle would become the chain of inserts again.

Forming splat shuffles can reduce IR and help enable further IR transforms.
Motivating bugs:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42174
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16739

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63848

llvm-svn: 365147
2019-07-04 16:45:34 +00:00
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