On SystemZ, shift and rotate instructions only use the bottom 6 bits of the shift/rotate amount.
Therefore, if the amount is ANDed with an immediate mask that has all of the bottom 6 bits set, we
can remove the AND operation entirely.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21854
llvm-svn: 274650
Summary: SystemZ shift instructions only use the last 6 bits of the shift
amount. When the result of an AND operation is used as a shift amount, this
means that we can use the NILL instruction (which operates on the last 16 bits)
rather than NILF (which operates on the last 32 bits) for a 16-bit savings in
instruction size.
Reviewers: uweigand
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Author: colpell
Committing on behalf of Elliot.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21686
llvm-svn: 274066