On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On 07/21/2012 06:10 AM, Oleg Endo wrote:
> > I think on SH the cost test in lshift_cheap_p with
> > gen_rtx_ASHIFT (word_mode, const1_rtx, reg), speed_p);
> >
> > will always 'fail', because of sh.c (shiftcosts):
> >   /* There is no pattern for constant first operand.  */
> >   if (CONST_INT_P (XEXP (x, 0)))
> >     return MAX_COST;
> >
> > On SH3 / SH4* / SH2A there is a dynamic shift that does "reg << reg" or
> > "reg >> reg", which is not that expensive actually.  However, the
> > constant "1" must be loaded into a register first.  I'm currently trying
> > to brush up the shift code in SH a little bit and could add some things
> > to handle the "const << reg" case.
>
> Having to load the "1" into a register is something common to all targets.

IIUC, no, not for testing a single bit and/or several bits from
bit 0 up to the numbered bit.  See cris *btst and m68k (several
unnamed patterns with about the same contents, setting cc0,
calling output_btst) r188179 m68k.md:666 (evil patterns?)

> I shouldn't think that SH should need to do anything special.  Indeed, that
> conditional that you quote above looks very wrong.  I believe you should
> simply recurse (or let the rtx_cost driver recurse) to find the cost of
> arguments to the shift.
>
>
> r~
>

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