Summary: Some constants can be handled with less instructions than our current results. And it seems our original approach is not very easy to extend. Therefore this patch proposes to materialize all 64-bit constants by enumerated patterns.
I traversed almost all constants to verified the functionality of these pattens. A traversed comparison of the number of instructions used by the original method and the new method has also been completed, where no degradation was caused by this patch. This patch also passed Bootstrap test and SPEC test.
Improvements of this patch are shown in llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/constants-i64.ll
Reviewed By: steven.zhang, stefanp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92089
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
In r225251, I removed an old entry from the README.txt file. While there are
several contributing factors (including pieces in Clang's ABI code), upon
further reflection, the backend part deserves a regression test.
llvm-svn: 225268
Esme-Yi