How do I convert _m128i to an unsigned int with SSE?

Question

I have made a function for posterizing images.

// =(
#define ARGB_COLOR(a, r, g, b) (((a) << 24) | ((r) << 16) | ((g) << 8) | (b))

inline UINT PosterizeColor(const UINT &color, const float &nColors)
{
    __m128 clr = _mm_cvtepi32_ps(  _mm_cvtepu8_epi32((__m128i&)color)  );

    clr = _mm_mul_ps(clr,  _mm_set_ps1(nColors / 255.0f)  );
    clr = _mm_round_ps(clr, _MM_FROUND_TO_NEAREST_INT);
    clr = _mm_mul_ps(clr, _mm_set_ps1(255.0f / nColors)  );

    __m128i iClr = _mm_cvttps_epi32(clr);

    return ARGB_COLOR(iClr.m128i_u8[12],
                      iClr.m128i_u8[8],
                      iClr.m128i_u8[4],
                      iClr.m128i_u8[0]);
}

in the first line, I unpack the color into 4 floats, but I can't find the proper way to do the reverse.

I searched through the SSE docs and could not find the reverse of _mm_cvtepu8_epi32

does one exist?

Answer 1

A combination of _mm_shuffle_epi8 and _mm_cvtsi128_si32 is what you need:

static const __m128i shuffleMask = _mm_setr_epi8(0,  4,  8, 12, -1, -1, -1, -1,
                                               -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1);
UINT color = _mm_cvtsi128_si32(_mm_shuffle_epi8(iClr, shuffleMask));