//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// // Random ideas for the X86 backend. //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// Add a MUL2U and MUL2S nodes to represent a multiply that returns both the Hi and Lo parts (combination of MUL and MULH[SU] into one node). Add this to X86, & make the dag combiner produce it when needed. This will eliminate one imul from the code generated for: long long test(long long X, long long Y) { return X*Y; } by using the EAX result from the mul. We should add a similar node for DIVREM. //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// This should be one DIV/IDIV instruction, not a libcall: unsigned test(unsigned long long X, unsigned Y) { return X/Y; } This can be done trivially with a custom legalizer. What about overflow though? http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14224 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// Need to add support for rotate instructions. //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// Some targets (e.g. athlons) prefer freep to fstp ST(0): http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-04/msg00659.html //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// This should use faddi on chips where it is profitable: double foo(double P, int *I) { return P+*I; } //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// The FP stackifier needs to be global. Also, it should handle simple permutates to reduce number of shuffle instructions, e.g. turning: fld P -> fld Q fld Q fld P fxch or: fxch -> fucomi fucomi jl X jg X //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// Improvements to the multiply -> shift/add algorithm: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg01590.html //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// Improve code like this (occurs fairly frequently, e.g. in LLVM): long long foo(int x) { return 1LL << x; } http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01109.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01128.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01136.html Another useful one would be ~0ULL >> X and ~0ULL << X. //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// Should support emission of the bswap instruction, probably by adding a new DAG node for byte swapping. Also useful on PPC which has byte-swapping loads.