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diff --git a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
index c9fba7fed4..5bdefaa23c 100644
--- a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
@@ -569,3 +569,13 @@ We could use a target dag combine to turn the lwz/extsw into an lwa when the
lwz has a single use. Since LWA is cracked anyway, this would be a codesize
win only.
+===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+
+ Consider this:
+ v4f32 Vector;
+ v4f32 Vector2 = { Vector.X, Vector.X, Vector.X, Vector.X };
+
+Since we know that "Vector" is 16-byte aligned and we know the element offset
+of ".X", we should change the load into a lve*x instruction, instead of doing
+a load/store/lve*x sequence.
+