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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - [x86] parity op gets transformed to popcount"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52093">52093</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>[x86] parity op gets transformed to popcount
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libraries
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
          </td>
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
          </td>
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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>craig.topper@gmail.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, llvm-dev@redking.me.uk, pengfei.wang@intel.com, spatel+llvm@rotateright.com
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        <pre>define i32 @xor4_popcount(i32 %x) {
  %m = and i32 %x, 15
  %p = tail call i32 @llvm.ctpop.i32(i32 %m)
  %r = and i32 %p, 1
  ret i32 %r
}

declare i32 @llvm.ctpop.i32(i32)

--------------------------------------------------------------------
% llc -o - pop.ll              
        xorl    %eax, %eax
        testb   $15, %dil
        setnp   %al

% llc -o - pop.ll -mattr=popcnt
        andl    $15, %edi
        popcntl %edi, %eax
        andl    $1, %eax

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

Debug spew shows that we convert to a parity node either way, but then convert
back to ctpop for a target that supports that instruction.

Test and set likely has better latency/throughput than popcnt + 2 mask
instructions on all recent x86 CPUs.</pre>
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