MIPS32 has instructions for efficient count-leading/trailing-zeros, so this should be
considered a cheap operation (and therefore fair game for speculation) for any MIPS32
implementation.
The net result of allowing this speculation for the regression tests in this patch is
that we get this code:
ctlz:
jr $ra
clz $2, $4
cttz:
addiu $1, $4, -1
not $2, $4
and $1, $2, $1
clz $1, $1
addiu $2, $zero, 32
jr $ra
subu $2, $2, $1
Instead of:
ctlz:
beqz $4, $BB0_2
addiu $2, $zero, 32
clz $2, $4
$BB0_2:
jr $ra
nop
cttz:
beqz $4, $BB1_2
addiu $2, $zero, 32
addiu $1, $4, -1
not $2, $4
and $1, $2, $1
clz $1, $1
addiu $2, $zero, 32
subu $2, $2, $1
$BB1_2:
jr $ra
nop
See D14469 for the larger motivation.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14500
llvm-svn: 252755
Sanjay Patel