[llvm-dev] Ignored branch predictor hints

[Dávid Bolvanský via llvm-dev]

I did
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37368

2018-05-09 20:33 GMT+02:00 Dávid Bolvanský <david.bolvansky at gmail.com>:

> I did
>
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37368
>
> 2018-05-09 20:29 GMT+02:00 David Zarzycki <dave at znu.io>:
>
>> I’d wager that the if-else chain is being converted to a "switch
>> statement” during an optimization pass and the __builtin_expect() hint is
>> lost. Can you file a bug? https://bugs.llvm.org
>>
>>
>> On May 9, 2018, at 1:57 PM, Dávid Bolvanský via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> #define likely(x)       __builtin_expect((x),1)
>>
>> // switch like
>> char * b(int e) {
>>     if (likely(e == 0))
>>         return "0";
>>     else if (e == 1)
>>         return "1";
>>     else return "f";
>> }
>>
>> GCC correctly prefers the first case:
>>
>> b(int):
>>   mov eax, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0
>>   test edi, edi
>>   jne .L7
>>   ret
>>
>> But Clang seems to ignore _builtin_expect hints in this case.
>>
>> b(int): # @b(int)
>>   cmp edi, 1
>>   mov eax, offset .L.str.1
>>   mov ecx, offset .L.str.2
>>   cmove rcx, rax
>>   test edi, edi
>>   mov eax, offset .L.str
>>   cmovne rax, rcx
>>   ret
>>
>> https://godbolt.org/g/tuAVT7
>>
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