This patch optimizes the emission of a sequence of SELECTs with the same
condition, avoiding the insertion of unnecessary control flow. Such a sequence
often occurs when a SELECT of values wider than XLEN is legalized into two
SELECTs with legal types. We have identified several use cases where the
SELECTs could be interleaved with other instructions. Therefore, we extend the
sequence to include non-SELECT instructions if we are able to detect that the
non-SELECT instructions do not impact the optimization.
This patch supersedes https://reviews.llvm.org/D59096, which attempted to
address this issue by introducing a new SelectionDAG node. Hat tip to Eli
Friedman for his feedback on how to best handle this issue.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59355
Patch by Luís Marques.
llvm-svn: 356741
Alex Bradbury