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authorEvan Cheng <evan.cheng@apple.com>2006-02-14 08:25:32 +0000
committerEvan Cheng <evan.cheng@apple.com>2006-02-14 08:25:32 +0000
commit952b7d6a1efc3b02fee379aeae4765feac2aa726 (patch)
treedab0fd7087f3a0231e2ee1a797687da6b3d631e6 /lib
parent87ed716d21bec7ea29674b4b010aa051ad2b7193 (diff)
Add a entry.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@26173 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Target/X86/README.txt17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
index 3bbf3c26e4..50d87bc173 100644
--- a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
@@ -426,3 +426,20 @@ When: "movl $_dst, _ptr" is sufficient.
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
Use fisttp to do FP to integer conversion whenever it is available.
+
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+Instead of the following for memset char*, 1, 10:
+
+ movl $16843009, 4(%edx)
+ movl $16843009, (%edx)
+ movw $257, 8(%edx)
+
+It might be better to generate
+
+ movl $16843009, %eax
+ movl %eax, 4(%edx)
+ movl %eax, (%edx)
+ movw al, 8(%edx)
+
+when we can spare a register. It reduces code size.