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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - optimize reciprocal square root with fast-math (x86)"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20900">20900</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>optimize reciprocal square root with fast-math (x86)
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libraries
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Backend: X86
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>spatel+llvm@rotateright.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>$ ./clang -v
clang version 3.6.0 (217530)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
Thread model: posix

$ cat rsqrt.c 
#include <math.h>
float reciprocal_square_root(float x) {
    return 1.0f / sqrtf(x);
}

$ ./clang -O2 -ffast-math -S -o - rsqrt.c 
...
    sqrtss    %xmm0, %xmm1
    movss    LCPI0_0(%rip), %xmm0
    divss    %xmm1, %xmm0


---------------------------------------------------------------------

This should be optimized to use 'rsqrtss'.

ICC 14 does this at -O2:

        rsqrtss   %xmm0, %xmm2
        mulss     %xmm2, %xmm0
        mulss     %xmm2, %xmm0
        movss     L_2il0floatpacket.2(%rip), %xmm1
        mulss     %xmm1, %xmm2
        subss     L_2il0floatpacket.1(%rip), %xmm0
        mulss     %xmm2, %xmm0
        ret       
L_2il0floatpacket.1:
    .long    0x40400000
L_2il0floatpacket.2:
    .long    0xbf000000</pre>
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