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-rw-r--r--lib/Target/X86/README.txt21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
index 4b9a9dd029..0667580a44 100644
--- a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
@@ -430,16 +430,13 @@ void pairtest(pair P, float *FP) {
We currently generate this code with llvmgcc4:
_pairtest:
- subl $12, %esp
- movl 20(%esp), %eax
- movl %eax, 4(%esp)
- movl 16(%esp), %eax
- movl %eax, (%esp)
- movss (%esp), %xmm0
- addss 4(%esp), %xmm0
- movl 24(%esp), %eax
- movss %xmm0, (%eax)
- addl $12, %esp
+ movl 8(%esp), %eax
+ movl 4(%esp), %ecx
+ movd %eax, %xmm0
+ movd %ecx, %xmm1
+ addss %xmm0, %xmm1
+ movl 12(%esp), %eax
+ movss %xmm1, (%eax)
ret
we should be able to generate:
@@ -455,6 +452,10 @@ integer chunks. It does this so that structs like {short,short} are passed in
a single 32-bit integer stack slot. We should handle the safe cases above much
nicer, while still handling the hard cases.
+While true in general, in this specific case we could do better by promoting
+load int + bitcast to float -> load fload. This basically needs alignment info,
+the code is already implemented (but disabled) in dag combine).
+
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
Another instruction selector deficiency: