Does the OCaml binding include intrinsic support?

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I can't seem to find reference to intrinsics, beyond the is_intrinsic function.

I am building a backend which needs to perform some target-specific
code-generation (for SSE, AVX, and NEON), and intrinsics are the
standard path in the C++ API.

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I can’t seem to find reference to intrinsics, beyond the is_intrinsic function.

I am building a backend which needs to perform some target-specific
code-generation (for SSE, AVX, and NEON), and intrinsics are the
standard path in the C++ API.

What happens if you just build a call to a function with the same name as the intrinsic you want? I believe that should work.

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Indeed, it would appear that I am a moron and that this obvious route works just fine. I was confounded by the richer support for using intrinsics in the C++ interface, and some corresponding features in some 3rd party bindings (llvm-py, in particular), but this works exactly as I should have expected from the .ll assembly form.

I documented the results for a simple SSE test with an example on SO:

  Does the LLVM OCaml binding include intrinsic support? - Stack Overflow

Thanks.