[PATCH] Rework widen VMOVS transformation to not depend on implicit defs/uses

[Evan Cheng]

What’s the compile time impact? If it’s not noticeably slowing down the overall codegen pipeline, then it’s ok.

Evan

> On Nov 19, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Matthias Braun <matze at braunis.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Evan, list,
> 
> the attached patch rewrites VMOVS widening transformation in the arm backend to be an independent pass that relies on actual liveness data instead of implicit superregister defs/uses being present.
> This new approach has to perform liveness simulation (it only does this on demand if it actually finds any candidates) and is therefore slower than the previous approach. However with the upcoming subregister liveness tracking we will not be able to maintain reliable superregister def/uses anymore and need this rewrite; The new pass also seems to trigger in two more cases in the testsuite where we did not have implicit superregister defs but still benefit from a promotion.
> 
> Greetings
>    Matthias
> 
> <0001-ARM-Rework-widen-VMOVS-transformation.patch>