Teach the legalizer how to promote SINT_TO_FP to a wider SINT_TO_FP that
the target natively supports. This eliminates some special-case code from the x86 backend and generates better code as well. For an i8 to f64 conversion, before & after: _x87 before: subl $2, %esp movb 6(%esp), %al movsbw %al, %ax movw %ax, (%esp) filds (%esp) addl $2, %esp ret _x87 after: subl $2, %esp movsbw 6(%esp), %ax movw %ax, (%esp) filds (%esp) addl $2, %esp ret _sse before: subl $12, %esp movb 16(%esp), %al movsbl %al, %eax cvtsi2sd %eax, %xmm0 addl $12, %esp ret _sse after: subl $12, %esp movsbl 16(%esp), %eax cvtsi2sd %eax, %xmm0 addl $12, %esp ret llvm-svn: 22452
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