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
Matthias Braun