Because i16 is illegal, there's no native DAG method to
represent a bitcast to or from an f16 type. This meant LLVM was
inserting a stack store/load pair which is really not ideal.
llvm-svn: 213378
Actual support for softening f16 operations is still limited, and can be added
when it's needed. But Soften is much closer to being a useful thing to try
than keeping it Legal when no registers can actually hold such values.
Longer term, we probably want something between Soften and Promote semantics
for most targets, it'll be more efficient to promote the 4 basic operations to
f32 than libcall them.
llvm-svn: 213372