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Commit 90c5b3f7 authored by Roman Lebedev's avatar Roman Lebedev
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[X86] X86DAGToDAGISel::matchBitExtract(): extract 'lshr' from `X`

Summary:
As discussed in previous review, and noted in the FIXME, if `X` is actually an `lshr Y, Z` (logical!),
we can fold the `Z` into 'control`, and let the `BEXTR` do this too.
We could just insert those 8 bits of shift amount into control,
but it is better to instead zero-extend them, and 'or' them in place.

We can only do this for `lshr`, not `ashr`, because we do not know that the mask cover only the bits of `Y`,
and not any of the sign-extended bits.

The obvious question is, is this actually legal to do?
I believe it is. Relevant quotes, from `Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual`, `BEXTR — Bit Field Extract`:
* `Bit 7:0 of the second source operand specifies the starting bit position of bit extraction.`
* `A START value exceeding the operand size will not extract any bits from the second source operand.`
* `Only bit positions up to (OperandSize -1) of the first source operand are extracted.`
* `All higher order bits in the destination operand (starting at bit position LENGTH) are zeroed.`
* `The destination register is cleared if no bits are extracted.`

FIXME: if we can do this, i wonder if we should prefer `BEXTR` over `BZHI` in such cases.

Reviewers: RKSimon, craig.topper, spatel, andreadb

Reviewed By: RKSimon, craig.topper, andreadb

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54095

llvm-svn: 347048
parent 831be096
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