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Commit 5eb9f581 authored by Daniel Sanders's avatar Daniel Sanders
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[globalisel][legalizerinfo] Introduce dedicated extending loads and add lowerings for them

Summary:
Previously, a extending load was represented at (G_*EXT (G_LOAD x)).
This had a few drawbacks:
* G_LOAD had to be legal for all sizes you could extend from, even if
  registers didn't naturally hold those sizes.
* All sizes you could extend from had to be allocatable just in case the
  extend went missing (e.g. by optimization).
* At minimum, G_*EXT and G_TRUNC had to be legal for these sizes. As we
  improve optimization of extends and truncates, this legality requirement
  would spread without considerable care w.r.t when certain combines were
  permitted.
* The SelectionDAG importer required some ugly and fragile pattern
  rewriting to translate patterns into this style.

This patch begins changing the representation to:
* (G_[SZ]EXTLOAD x)
* (G_LOAD x) any-extends when MMO.getSize() * 8 < ResultTy.getSizeInBits()
which resolves these issues by allowing targets to work entirely in their
native register sizes, and by having a more direct translation from
SelectionDAG patterns.

This patch introduces the new generic instructions and new variation on
G_LOAD and adds lowering for them to convert back to the existing
representations.

Depends on D45466

Reviewers: ab, aditya_nandakumar, bogner, rtereshin, volkan, rovka, aemerson, javed.absar

Reviewed By: aemerson

Subscribers: aemerson, kristof.beyls, javed.absar, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45540

llvm-svn: 331115
parent 2d2698c6
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