This is going to be required for binding a number of AVX-512 intrinsics
in the `stdsimd` repository, and this intrinsic is the same as
`simd_select` except that it takes a bitmask as the first argument
instead of a SIMD vector. This bitmask is then transmuted into a `<NN x
i8>` argument, depending on how many bits it is.
cc rust-lang-nursery/stdsimd#310
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 guide.
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