[llvm-dev] InstCombiner bug

Tue Feb 4 09:29:12 PST 2020

Looks definitely a bug, please report it, thanks!

John

On 2/4/20 10:09 AM, Rob Springer via llvm-dev wrote:
> I believe there's a bug 
> in InstCombiner::reassociateShiftAmtsOfTwoSameDirectionShifts(), 
> illustrated by https://rise4fun.com/Alive/ne8y. I'll post a bug on the 
> tracker as soon as I can get an account set up.
> 
> Short form: when identifying the two shifts to combine, it does so while 
> ignoring any zero-extensions of those values. In this case, the 
> values are both i1 zero-extended to i3s, so when taking their sum, 
> SimplifyAddInst emits an xor, causing the shift to basically disappear.
> 
> I could write more, but the Alive link is probably more concise.
> 
> Let me know what you think / if there's some followup needed, etc.
> Thanks!
> 
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