[LLVMdev] Motivation for 'select' instruction

[Chris Lattner]

> Yes, because the target processor does not have any equivivalent of the
> 'select' statement. Generally speaking, I have to search for paths in
> assembler for that processor and, devise a way to map them back into LLVM and
> run analysis then, but that's more work (and research). For a start, lowering
> selects will do.

Okay, that makes sense.

-Chris

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