An identity COPY like this:
%AL = COPY %AL, %EAX<imp-def>
has no semantic effect, but encodes liveness information: Further users
of %EAX only depend on this instruction even though it does not define
the full register.
Replace the COPY with a KILL instruction in those cases to maintain this
liveness information. (This reverts a small part of r238588 but this
time adds a comment explaining why a KILL instruction is useful).
llvm-svn: 274952
multiplies.
Some more cleverness would be nice, though. It would be nice if we
could do this transformation on illegal types. Also, we would
prefer a narrower constant when possible so that we can use a narrower
multiply, which can be cheaper.
llvm-svn: 60283
optimized. This avoids creating illegal divisions when the combiner is
running after legalize; this fixes PR1815. Also, it produces better
code in the included testcase by avoiding the subtract and multiply
when the division isn't optimized.
llvm-svn: 44341
Matthias Braun