[LLVMdev] best way to implement complex addressing modes

[Chris Lattner]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> I'd have thought PowerPC has some similarities?

PPC just has R+R and R+I addressing modes.  X86 has other crazy things 
that can fold shifts 3 adds and other stuff into the addressing mode.  See 
lib/Target/X86/X86ISelDAGToDAG.cpp:SelectAddr to see it's implementation 
in llvm.

-Chris

-- 
http://nondot.org/sabre/
http://llvm.org/