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[AArch64] Add patterns for zext/sext of shift amount.
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Authored by efriedma on Dec 11 2018, 1:04 PM.

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Not sure this is the best fix, but it saves an instruction for certain constructs involving variable shifts.

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efriedma created this revision.Dec 11 2018, 1:04 PM
t.p.northover added inline comments.Dec 12 2018, 3:03 AM
test/CodeGen/AArch64/shift-mod.ll
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There's no particular reason to use w8 here so this test is pretty fragile. In general I think we should never be hard-coding registers that aren't at an ABI boundary (and so that update_llc_test_checks.py is usually more trouble than it's worth).

update_llc_test_checks is a useful starting point because it generates the right checks to ensure you're checking the whole function, which is inconvenient to do by hand (trying to CHECK-NOT your way to checking the whole function is a bad idea).

I can replace the explicit reference to r8 with a regex, sure. (We could look at modifying update_llc_test_checks to generate a regex where appropriate, I guess... but it might be tricky to distinguish when a value is ABI-significant.)

update_llc_test_checks is a useful starting point because it generates the right checks to ensure you're checking the whole function, which is inconvenient to do by hand (trying to CHECK-NOT your way to checking the whole function is a bad idea).

I can see some benefit there, though when the tests do break I'm often annoyed by it checking irrelevant details (those comments in this case, for example). Either way I think we should very strongly discourage people from treating its output as good enough for final tests except in trivial one-instruction cases.

I can replace the explicit reference to r8 with a regex, sure.

Thanks.

(We could look at modifying update_llc_test_checks to generate a regex where appropriate, I guess... but it might be tricky to distinguish when a value is ABI-significant.)

I was musing along similar lines myself this morning. Intel vs AT&T (and use/def in general) would also be tricky; I suspect it would need to bake quite a bit of target-specific knowledge into it to get reasonable output.

I suspect it would need to bake quite a bit of target-specific knowledge into it to get reasonable output

Yes. But that's expected; assembly is inherently target-specific. There are some target-specific checks already.

efriedma updated this revision to Diff 181929.Jan 15 2019, 4:41 PM

Use regex instead of explicit "x8".

t.p.northover accepted this revision.Jan 16 2019, 2:13 AM

Thanks! LGTM.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 16 2019, 2:13 AM
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