Right way to represent flag-setting arithmetic instructions in MD files
Eric Botcazou
ebotcazou@adacore.com
Fri Mar 10 10:23:00 GMT 2017
> My understanding was that the order of the two in this pattern here doesn't
> matter because there is an implicit PARALLEL around them, but I found that
> the compare-elimination pass (compare-elim.c) assumes that the COMPARE set
> must be in the second position for it to do the transformations it wants.
Why do you want to use the compare-elimination pass exactly if the flags are
exposed before reload, as is the case on Aarch64 I think? The combiner is
supposed to do the same job instead for these targets.
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Eric Botcazou
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