This was discussed in D33338. We have larger pattern-matching ending in a truncate that
we can reduce or remove by handling these smaller patterns first. Further motivation is
that narrower shift ops are easier for value tracking and zext is better than sext.
http://rise4fun.com/Alive/rhh
Name: boolshift
%sext = sext i1 %x to i8
%r = lshr i8 %sext, 7
=>
%r = zext i1 %x to i8
Name: noboolshift
%sext = sext i3 %x to i8
%r = lshr i8 %sext, 7
=>
%sh = lshr i3 %x, 2
%r = zext i3 %sh to i8
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33879
llvm-svn: 304939
As discussed in:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D33338
...we may be able to remove a wider pattern match by doing these more
basic canonicalizations.
llvm-svn: 303504