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| author | Nate Begeman <natebegeman@mac.com> | 2008-02-13 07:06:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Nate Begeman <natebegeman@mac.com> | 2008-02-13 07:06:12 +0000 |
| commit | eea32990a921e540027bc09f2dd6683fcf12d47a (patch) | |
| tree | 228881985621f1293b86c9ea81a906c10d3841e6 /llvm/lib | |
| parent | 03ec63f29d982ffe8dba3afb49b757ac49f2df0c (diff) | |
| download | bcm5719-llvm-eea32990a921e540027bc09f2dd6683fcf12d47a.tar.gz bcm5719-llvm-eea32990a921e540027bc09f2dd6683fcf12d47a.zip | |
readme updates
llvm-svn: 47051
Diffstat (limited to 'llvm/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt | 11 |
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diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt index 143804da07f..461b4123c79 100644 --- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt +++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt @@ -177,3 +177,12 @@ which prevents the vnot pattern from matching. //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// + +An alternative to the store/store/load approach for illegal insert element +lowering would be: + +1. store element to any ol' slot +2. lvx the slot +3. lvsl 0; splat index; vcmpeq to generate a select mask +4. lvsl slot + x; vperm to rotate result into correct slot +5. vsel result together. diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt b/llvm/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt index d9a03a3610c..197dae38c6f 100644 --- a/llvm/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt +++ b/llvm/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt @@ -781,3 +781,14 @@ any number of 0.0 simultaneously. Currently we only use it for simple insertions. See comments in LowerINSERT_VECTOR_ELT_SSE4. + +//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// + +On a random note, SSE2 should declare insert/extract of 2 x f64 as legal, not +Custom. All combinations of insert/extract reg-reg, reg-mem, and mem-reg are +legal, it'll just take a few extra patterns written in the .td file. + +Note: this is not a code quality issue; the custom lowered code happens to be +right, but we shouldn't have to custom lower anything. This is probably related +to <2 x i64> ops being so bad. + |
