Related to https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37793, https://reviews.llvm.org/D46760#1127287
We'd like to do this canonicalization https://rise4fun.com/Alive/Gmc
But it is currently restricted by rL155136 / rL155362, which says:
// This is a constant shift of a constant shift. Be careful about hiding // shl instructions behind bit masks. They are used to represent multiplies // by a constant, and it is important that simple arithmetic expressions // are still recognizable by scalar evolution. // // The transforms applied to shl are very similar to the transforms applied // to mul by constant. We can be more aggressive about optimizing right // shifts. // // Combinations of right and left shifts will still be optimized in // DAGCombine where scalar evolution no longer applies.
I think these tests show that for *constants*, SCEV has no issues with that canonicalization.
This obviously should be // FIXME: we do not yet transform non-exact shr's. The backend (DAGCombine)
Will fix before commit.