Certain operations (e.g. widening) will have operands with types like `NxM` but will return results with types like `(N*2)x(M/2)` (double the lane width, halve the number of lanes; maintain the same number of vector bits). This is equivalent to applying two `DerivedFunction`s to the type: `DerivedFunction::DoubleWidth` then `DerivedFunction::HalfVector`. Since there is no easy way to apply multiple `DerivedFunction`s (e.g. most of the logic is one-level deep, 1d5a678124/cranelift/codegen/meta/src/gen_inst.rs (L618-L621)), I added `DerivedFunction::MergeLanes` to do the necessary type conversion.
This crate contains the core Cranelift code generator. It translates code from an intermediate representation into executable machine code.