add another overflow idiom

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@121854 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Target/README.txt b/lib/Target/README.txt
index e59c28697a..5c97b8984c 100644
--- a/lib/Target/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/README.txt
@@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ when it would be better to generate:
 	addq	%rdi, %rbx
 	jno	LBB0_2
 
+Apparently some version of GCC knows this.  Here is a multiply idiom:
+
+unsigned int mul(unsigned int a,unsigned int b) {
+ if ((unsigned long long)a*b>0xffffffff)
+   exit(0);
+  return a*b;
+}
+
 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
 Get the C front-end to expand hypot(x,y) -> llvm.sqrt(x*x+y*y) when errno and