[LLVMdev] Why change "sub x, 5" to "add x, -5" ?

[David Chisnall]

On 8 Jul 2015, at 16:00, Frédéric Heitzmann <frederic.heitzmann at gmail.com> wrote:
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> AFAIK, there is no target which has some better encoding with a negative value than with a positive one.

Many don’t have a sub-with-immediate at all, they have an add-with-sign-extended-immediate.  Having a single canonical form simplifies matching for these.

David