[llvm-dev] Loop identification

[Krzysztof Parzyszek via llvm-dev]

On 1/16/2017 2:23 AM, Catello Cioffi wrote:
> What I was thinking to do is to modify the Mips backend adding a Loop
> Pass or a Function Pass. Do you think that this could work?

You can now add your own loop pass that could do loop idiom recognition 
for your target.  I just did that for Hexagon in:
https://reviews.llvm.org/rL293213.

-Krzysztof

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