This patch corresponds to review:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D23155
This patch removes the VSHRC register class (based on D20310) and adds
exploitation of the Power9 sub-word integer loads into VSX registers as well
as vector sign extensions.
The new instructions are useful for a few purposes:
Int to Fp conversions of 1 or 2-byte values loaded from memory
Building vectors of 1 or 2-byte integers with values loaded from memory
Storing individual 1 or 2-byte elements from integer vectors
This patch implements all of those uses.
llvm-svn: 283190
Currently we have a number of tests that fail with -verify-machineinstrs.
To detect this cases earlier we add the option to the testcases with the
exception of tests that will currently fail with this option. PR 27456 keeps
track of this failures.
No code review, as discussed with Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 277624
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
This is a direct port of the code from the X86 backend (r239486/r240361), which
uses the MachineCombiner to reassociate (floating-point) adds/muls to increase
ILP, to the PowerPC backend. The rationale is the same.
There is a lot of copy-and-paste here between the X86 code and the PowerPC
code, and we should extract at least some of this into CodeGen somewhere.
However, I don't want to do that until this code is enhanced to handle FMAs as
well. After that, we'll be in a better position to extract the common parts.
llvm-svn: 242279
Nemanja Ivanovic