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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“ARMv8 Instruction Set” (<a href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.genc010197a/index.html">http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.genc010197a/index.html</a>) has the section 6.1 “Partial Deprecation
of IT” which restricts the usage of IT blocks in ARMv8 Thumb mode to a reduced subset of 16-bit Thumb instructions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The attached patch for the ARM backend implements this change in the predicability of Thumb instructions. In particular, when generating code for ARMv8 targets, Thumb2SizeReduction pass needs to run before IfConverter pass, because 32-bit
Thumb instructions are no longer predicable in ARMv8. This has been observed to have very limited adverse side-effects for ARMv7 targets: e.g. 32-bit MOV is reduced to 16-bit MOVS, and is then assumed to affect CPRS, so it can no longer be combined in an IT
block with a following instruction. Such cases of missed optimizations don’t affect ARMv8, since IT blocks longer than a single instruction are deprecated. Thus, to the best of our knowledge, changing the order of the passes on ARMv8 doesn’t introduce any
problems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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