As discussed in D45733, we want to do this in InstCombine.
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Not related to this patch exactly but since you work in this area... maybe you can check this too?
https://godbolt.org/g/wksfqb
That particular example should be handled by dead code elimination pass i guess,
because it is literally optimized down to return 0;,
since it only reads global uint32_t b; once, and ultimately does nothing with that.
But, i have zero clues how it should be done.
It is interesting, since even if we dont use "b", just leave it as "uint32_t a = 5;", the code is not eliminated since optimizer may think it could be infinite loop (?) (cc @chandlerc , @spatel )
You probably want to move that to a bugzilla issue, as you have noted yourself, this is completely unrelated from the patch a hand.
LGTM - see inline comments.
lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineAndOrXor.cpp | ||
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2421–2423 | We should state our reasoning here - because I know I won't remember for long. :) So something like: | |
2447 | iC -> NotC |
@spatel thank you for the review!
lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineAndOrXor.cpp | ||
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2433 | I'm wondering if by simply capturing M here we miss some opportunities where But i'm also not sure how to squeeze that into this one match(), in particular |
We should state our reasoning here - because I know I won't remember for long. :)
So something like:
We can canonicalize by swapping the final xor operand to eliminate the 'not' of the mask.
If M is a constant, we transform to 'and' / 'or' ops because that shortens the dependency chain and improves analysis.