[llvm-commits] [llvm] r66366 - in /llvm/trunk: lib/Transforms/Scalar/ScalarReplAggregates.cpp test/Transforms/ScalarRepl/2008-06-22-LargeArray.ll test/Transforms/ScalarRepl/vector_memcpy.ll

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Chris,

> > x86 has other problems when copying using floats.  This came up in  
> > llvm-gcc,
> > see http://llvm.org/PR2680  Quoting from the bug report "Bottom  
> > line, 387 FP
> > copies can't be relied on to do bitwise copies".
> 
> The patch for that bug changed copies to happen in integer registers.   
> Do you have an example that would illustrate this problem?

not sure what you are asking.  Like in the PR, I may have stored
2140832546U in a float alloca (by bitcasting to an integer* and
doing the store for example).  Copying this value later using a
float load and store would then end up giving a wrong answer, as
in the PR.  Maybe I've misunderstood the problem in that PR, or
what you are trying to do, but for the moment I don't see why you
couldn't hit the same problem as in the PR.  Not via exactly the
same mechanism of course, but at the bottom it's the same.

Ciao,

Duncan.