[PATCH] [ARM] Teach the ARM Load Store Optimizer to collapse ldr/str's to ldrd/strd's

[Renato Golin]

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Comment at: lib/Target/ARM/ARMLoadStoreOptimizer.cpp:1821-1831
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+// FIXME: Currently, only supports collapsing ldr/str's to ldrd/strd's for
+// V7M based cores. V7A and V7R architectures also support ldrd/strd instruction
+// with a few restrictions, for example for the ldrd instruction
+// the first destination register must be an even numbered register and
+// second register must be (first register number + 1). We should update
+// the code at some point to make it possible to generate ldrd/strd for
+// these architectuers as well.
+bool ARMLoadStoreOpt::LoadStoreToDoubleOpti(MachineBasicBlock &MBB) {
+  if (!isThumb2 || !STI->hasV7Ops() || !STI->isMClass()) {
+      return false;
+  }
+  bool Modified = false;
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john.brawn wrote:
> Actually the even/odd restriction is in A32 restriction, not a non-M-class restriction, i.e. in 7-A/R T32 there should be no problem.
Certainly the wrong way. A better way would be to have a flag in table gen (like fast-double-store or whatever). The best way would be to have a cost-model, like we have for the vectorizer, but that would be a big change for this small patch.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D9298

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