"H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 10/18/18, Richard Sandiford <richard.sandif...@arm.com> wrote:
>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On 10/17/18, Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We may simplify
>>>>>
>>>>>  (subreg (vec_merge (vec_duplicate X) (vector) (const_int 1)) 0)
>>>>>
>>>>> to X when mode of X is the same as of mode of subreg.
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> we already have code to simplify vec_select(vec_merge):
>>>>
>>>>      /* If we select elements in a vec_merge that all come from the same
>>>>         operand, select from that operand directly.  */
>>>>
>>>> It would make sense to me to make the subreg transform as similar to it
>>>> as
>>>> possible, in particular you don't need to special case vec_duplicate,
>>>> the
>>>> transformation would see that everything comes from the first vector,
>>>> produce (subreg (vec_duplicate X) 0), and let another transformation
>>>> optimize that.
>>
>> Sorry, didn't see this before the OK.
>>
>>> What do you mean by another transformation? If simplify_subreg doesn't
>>> return X for
>>>
>>>   (subreg (vec_merge (vec_duplicate X)
>>>                  (vector)
>>>                  (const_int ((1 << N) | M)))
>>>       (N * sizeof (X)))
>>>
>>>
>>> no further transformation will be done.
>>
>> I think the point was that we should transform:
>>
>>   (subreg (vec_merge X
>>                   (vector)
>>                   (const_int ((1 << N) | M)))
>>        (N * sizeof (X)))
>>
>> into:
>>
>>   simplify_gen_subreg (outermode, X, innermode, byte)
>>
>> which should further simplify when X is a vec_duplicate.
>
> But sizeof (X) is the size of scalar of vec_dup.  How do we
> check the mask of vec_merge?

Yeah, should be sizeof (outermode) (which was the same thing
in the original pattern, but not here).

Richard

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