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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Target/ARM/README.txt')
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diff --git a/lib/Target/ARM/README.txt b/lib/Target/ARM/README.txt index 9fc3fb9..8ba9a27 100644 --- a/lib/Target/ARM/README.txt +++ b/lib/Target/ARM/README.txt @@ -657,3 +657,27 @@ Note that both "tst" and "moveq" are redundant. //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// +When loading immediate constants with movt/movw, if there are multiple +constants needed with the same low 16 bits, and those values are not live at +the same time, it would be possible to use a single movw instruction, followed +by multiple movt instructions to rewrite the high bits to different values. +For example: + + volatile store i32 -1, i32* inttoptr (i32 1342210076 to i32*), align 4, + !tbaa +!0 + volatile store i32 -1, i32* inttoptr (i32 1342341148 to i32*), align 4, + !tbaa +!0 + +is compiled and optimized to: + + movw r0, #32796 + mov.w r1, #-1 + movt r0, #20480 + str r1, [r0] + movw r0, #32796 @ <= this MOVW is not needed, value is there already + movt r0, #20482 + str r1, [r0] + +//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// |
