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-rw-r--r--src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_logic.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_logic.c b/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_logic.c
index cdb7e0ad544..168bc262921 100644
--- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_logic.c
+++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_logic.c
@@ -458,10 +458,22 @@ lp_build_select(struct lp_build_context *bld,
mask = LLVMBuildTrunc(builder, mask, LLVMInt1TypeInContext(lc), "");
res = LLVMBuildSelect(builder, mask, a, b, "");
}
- else if (HAVE_LLVM >= 0x301) {
+ else if (0) {
/* Generate a vector select.
*
- * Only supported on LLVM 3.1 onwards
+ * XXX: Using vector selects would avoid emitting intrinsics, but they aren't
+ * properly supported yet.
+ *
+ * LLVM 3.1 supports it, but it yields buggy code (e.g. lp_blend_test).
+ *
+ * LLVM 3.0 includes experimental support provided the -promote-elements
+ * options is passed to LLVM's command line (e.g., via
+ * llvm::cl::ParseCommandLineOptions), but resulting code quality is much
+ * worse, probably because some optimization passes don't know how to
+ * handle vector selects.
+ *
+ * See also:
+ * - http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043659.html
*/
/* Convert the mask to a vector of booleans.