diff --git a/lib/Target/README.txt b/lib/Target/README.txt index c68ae76a257..f4aa531ae06 100644 --- a/lib/Target/README.txt +++ b/lib/Target/README.txt @@ -156,6 +156,45 @@ void f () { /* this can be optimized to four additions... */ This requires reassociating to forms of expressions that are already available, something that reassoc doesn't think about yet. + +//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// + +This function: (derived from GCC PR19988) +double foo(double x, double y) { + return ((x + 0.1234 * y) * (x + -0.1234 * y)); +} + +compiles to: +_foo: + movapd %xmm1, %xmm2 + mulsd LCPI1_1(%rip), %xmm1 + mulsd LCPI1_0(%rip), %xmm2 + addsd %xmm0, %xmm1 + addsd %xmm0, %xmm2 + movapd %xmm1, %xmm0 + mulsd %xmm2, %xmm0 + ret + +Instcombine should be able to turn it into: + +double foo(double x, double y) { + return ((x + 0.1234 * y) * (x - 0.1234 * y)); +} + +Which allows the multiply by constant to be CSE'd, producing: + +_foo: + mulsd LCPI1_0(%rip), %xmm1 + movapd %xmm1, %xmm2 + addsd %xmm0, %xmm2 + subsd %xmm1, %xmm0 + mulsd %xmm2, %xmm0 + ret + +This doesn't need -ffast-math support at all. This is particularly bad because +the llvm-gcc frontend is canonicalizing the later into the former, but clang +doesn't have this problem. + //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// These two functions should generate the same code on big-endian systems: