As of commit 284f2bffc9bc5, the DAG Combiner gets rid of the masking of the input to this node if the mask only keeps the bottom 16 bits. This is because the underlying library function does not use the high order bits. However, on PowerPC's ELFv2 ABI, it is the caller that is responsible for clearing the bits from the register. Therefore, the library implementation of __gnu_h2f_ieee will return an incorrect result if the bits aren't cleared.
This combine is desired for ARM (and possibly other targets) so this patch adds a query to Target Lowering to check if this zeroing needs to be kept.
I am hoping to be able to get this reviewed, updated if needed and merge the fix into 12.0.