[llvm] r178438 - Cleanup PPC(64) i32 -> float/double conversion

[Ulrich Weigand]

Bill Schmidt <wschmidt at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > Quasi-related thought, we should take a serious look at Jakob's
> SPARC-64 patches (from yesterday). It seems that they have a very
> similar 32/64-bit instruction identity issue to that in PPC, and
> Jakob addresses this by adding i64 as a valid type on the 32-bit
> register class, reusing the original 32-bit instructions (and just
> adding additional patterns for the 64-bit cases).
>
> Sounds promising indeed!  I think Ulrich is off for a holiday today; we
> should check first whether he's worked on something similar already as
> part of the asm-parser patches.  If not I'll definitely put it on my
> list of things to investigate -- have wanted to be rid of that
> duplication since I started on this project. ;)

No, I haven't done anything along those lines yet.

I certainly agree it would be good to remove the duplication ...

Bye,
Ulrich