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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - [x86] unnecessary mov of constant function parameter"
   href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=28957">28957</a>
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        <tr>
          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>[x86] unnecessary mov of constant function parameter
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libraries
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
        </tr>

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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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        <tr>
          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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        <tr>
          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <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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        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>I'm not sure which layer should handle this, but I'm assuming it's something
late in the backend:

extern int bar(int);
int foo(int x) {
  if (x == 1)
    return bar(1);  // 1st parameter is already '1'
  else
    return bar(-1);
}

or as IR:

define i32 @foo(i32 %x) {
entry:
  %cmp = icmp eq i32 %x, 1
  br i1 %cmp, label %if.then, label %if.else

if.then:            
  %call = tail call i32 @bar(i32 1) #2
  br label %return

if.else:                 
  %call1 = tail call i32 @bar(i32 -1) #2
  br label %return

return:                 
  %retval.0 = phi i32 [ %call, %if.then ], [ %call1, %if.else ]
  ret i32 %retval.0
}

declare i32 @bar(i32)

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

$ ./clang -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer repeatParameter.c -S -o - 
...
    cmpl    $1, %edi
    jne    LBB0_2
## BB#1:                               
    movl    $1, %edi   <--- %edi is already '1'               
    jmp    _bar       <--- 2nd bug? MachineCSE?        
LBB0_2:                           
    movl    $-1, %edi
    jmp    _bar              


gcc gets this right:

foo(int):
        cmpl    $1, %edi
        je      .L3
        movl    $-1, %edi
.L3:
        jmp     bar(int)</pre>
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