rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm
León Orell Valerian Liehr 0064e731a6
Rollup merge of #134042 - sayantn:power8-crypto, r=jieyouxu
Add the `power8-crypto` target feature

Add the `power8-crypto` target feature. This will enable adding some new PPC intrinsics in stdarch (specifically AES, SHA and CLMUL intrinsics). The implied target feature is from [here](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPC.td)

```@rustbot``` label A-target-feature O-PowerPC
2024-12-10 20:16:01 +01:00
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The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR, and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code that runs towards the end of the compilation process.

For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.