A isel deficiency.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@28427 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
index 2b7989bbe0..e4a9b55c45 100644
--- a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
@@ -586,4 +586,23 @@ as available and put it in some work list. Select other nodes in the normal
 manner. The chain operands are selected after all other nodes are selected. Uses
 of chain nodes are modified after instruction selection is completed.
 
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+Another instruction selector deficiency:
+
+void %bar() {
+	%tmp = load int (int)** %foo
+	%tmp = tail call int %tmp( int 3 )
+	ret void
+}
+
+_bar:
+	subl $12, %esp
+	movl L_foo$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
+	movl (%eax), %eax
+	call *%eax
+	addl $12, %esp
+	ret
 
+The current isel scheme will not allow the load to be folded in the call since
+the load's chain result is read by the callseq_start.