From e306b3d0d9e69d91ff0ffee1acf717bbf272eef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:17:53 +0000
Subject: add a note

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@56391 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt')

diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt b/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt
index 7c4bf37e34..7110b31487 100644
--- a/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ other fast SSE modes.
 
 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
-Think about doing i64 math in SSE regs.
+Think about doing i64 math in SSE regs on x86-32.
 
 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
@@ -876,3 +876,34 @@ orpd		%xmm1,		%xmm0	// 2^52 + x in double precision
 subsd		%xmm1,		%xmm0	// x in double precision
 cvtsd2ss	%xmm0,		%xmm0	// x in single precision
 
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+rdar://5907648
+
+This function:
+
+float foo(unsigned char x) {
+  return x;
+}
+
+compiles to (x86-32):
+
+define float @foo(i8 zeroext  %x) nounwind  {
+	%tmp12 = uitofp i8 %x to float		; <float> [#uses=1]
+	ret float %tmp12
+}
+
+compiles to:
+
+_foo:
+	subl	$4, %esp
+	movzbl	8(%esp), %eax
+	cvtsi2ss	%eax, %xmm0
+	movss	%xmm0, (%esp)
+	flds	(%esp)
+	addl	$4, %esp
+	ret
+
+We should be able to use:
+  cvtsi2ss 8($esp), %xmm0
+since we know the stack slot is already zext'd.
+
-- 
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