[LLVMdev] Undoing DAG Combiner patterns

[Tom Stellard]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 02:03:14AM +0000, Martin Filteau wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's the first LLVM backend we do for our asynchronous DSP. So, I apologize if this is a trivial question!
> 
> The target-independent DAG combiner performs the following transformation:
> 
> sub  n, c                ->  add n, -c
> 

It looks to me like this transformation would happen during the
legalization phase.  Is sub legal on your target?  If not, you
can custom lower it e.g.:

setOperationAction(ISD::SUB, MVT::i32, Custom);

and then handle ISD::SUB in the TargetLowering::LowerOperation()
function.

-Tom

> For our target, negative constants are more costly to encode.  What is the best place to revert to a sub instruction?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> -- Martin
> 
> www.octasic.com<http://www.octasic.com>
> 
> 
> 

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