<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I guess it tends not to block cross block optimization opportunity, or it just happen</div><div class="gmail_default"><a class="gmail-m_4048814098611670904moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D30416" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">https://reviews.llvm.org/<wbr>D30416</a><span style="font-size:14px"> is one?</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:14px">Regards,</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:14px">chenwj</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-06-17 1:49 GMT+08:00 Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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%0 = load i64, *i64 ptr, align
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%2 = %1 and 255;</div>
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simplify this to an 8 bit load, assuming each of %0
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<p>We don't aggressively narrow loads and stores in IR because it
tends to block other optimizations. See
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