[llvm-dev] question on implementing conditional branches

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I am trying to write a backend for an architecture that has two types of 
conditional branches:

1. An instruction that compares a register against zero, and branches if a 
condition is met, e.g. GT zero.

2. An instruction that uses the results of a preceding compare.  The compare 
generates in a general register a bunch of bits that are set if various 
conditions are true.  The conditional branch tests a single bit in the general 
register and branches if it is set.

I need some hints on which branch related operations (BRCOND, BR_CC, SELECT, 
SELECT_CC, SETCC) should be custom and which should be expanded?

Are there other backends with similar branch instructions?  PowerPC has the 
branch-on-bit approach but with a specific register with the condition bits.

thanks, brian