For example:
long long test(long long a, long long b) {
if (a << b > 0)
return b;
if (a << b < 0)
return a;
return a*b;
}
Produces:
sld. 5, 3, 4
ble 0, .LBB0_2
mr 3, 4
blr
.LBB0_2: # %if.end
cmpldi 5, 0
li 5, 1
isel 4, 4, 5, 2
mulld 3, 4, 3
blr
But the compare (cmpldi 5, 0) is redundant and can be removed (CR0 already
contains the result of that comparison).
The root cause of this is that LLVM converts signed comparisons into equality
comparison based on dominance. Equality comparisons are unsigned by default, so
we get either a record-form or cmp (without the l for logical) feeding a cmpl.
That is the situation we want to avoid here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60506
Yi-Hong Lyu