If it is "and" with constant, for some special pattern, we could use the rotate and instructions instead of the "andi." which requires us to generate the mask using several instructions. i.e. If the mask looks like this. That is, it has two groups of ones, and all of them are within the bits [32, 63].
MB MB2 ME2 ME +----------------------+ |0001111100000011111000| +----------------------+ 0 32 64
We could optimize it as:
- Clear the bit (MB2, ME2) first. It is a warpping mask. RLWINM 0, ME2, MB2
MB MB2 ME2 ME MB MB2 ME2 ME +----------------------+ +----------------------+ |1111111111111111111111| -> |1111111100000011111111+ +----------------------+ +----------------------+ 0 32 64 0 32 64
- Clear the bit (ME, MB). Notice that, as RLWINM will update the bit [0, 31], we can only do this optimization if MB >= 32.
MB MB2 ME2 ME MB MB2 ME2 ME +----------------------+ +----------------------+ |1111111100000011111111| -> |0001111100000011111000+ +----------------------+ +----------------------+ 0 32 64 0 32 64