As noted in the code comment, transforming this in the other direction might require
a separate transform here in CGP given the block-at-a-time DAG constraint.
Besides that theoretical motivation, there are 2 practical motivations for the
subtract-of-cmps form:
1. The codegen for both x86 and PPC is better for this IR (though PPC could be better still).
There is discussion about canonicalizing IR to the select form
( http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-July/114885.html ),
so we probably need to add DAG transforms for those patterns anyway, but this improves the
memcmp output without waiting for that step.
2. If we allow vector-sized chunks for the load and compare, x86 is better prepared to convert
that to optimal code when using subtract-of-cmps, so another prerequisite patch is avoided
if we choose to enable that.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34904
llvm-svn: 309597
As noted in D34071, there are some IR optimization opportunities that could be
handled by normal IR passes if this expansion wasn't happening so late in CGP.
Regardless of that, it seems wasteful to knowingly produce suboptimal IR here,
so I'm proposing this change:
%s = sub i32 %x, %y
%r = icmp ne %s, 0
=>
%r = icmp ne %x, %y
Changing the predicate to 'eq' mimics what InstCombine would do, so that's just
an efficiency improvement if we decide this expansion should happen sooner.
The fact that the PowerPC backend doesn't eliminate the 'subf.' might be
something for PPC folks to investigate separately.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34416
llvm-svn: 306471
This patch does an inline expansion of memcmp.
It changes the memcmp library call into an inline expansion when the size is
known at compile time and is under a target specified threshold.
This expansion is implemented in CodeGenPrepare and expands into straight line
code. The target specifies a maximum load size and the expansion works by using
this size to load the two sources, compare, and exit early if a difference is
found. It also has a special case when the memcmp result is used in a compare
to zero equality.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28637
llvm-svn: 304313
Sanjay Patel