There is a trunc(lshr (zext A), Cst) optimization in InstCombineCasts that

removes cast by performing the lshr on smaller types. However, currently there
is no trunc(lshr (sext A), Cst) variant.
This patch add such optimization by transforming trunc(lshr (sext A), Cst)
to ashr A, Cst.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12520

llvm-svn: 246997

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp
index 72f0c1f..71ce749 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp
@@ -499,6 +499,26 @@ Instruction *InstCombiner::visitTrunc(TruncInst &CI) {
     return CastInst::CreateIntegerCast(Shift, CI.getType(), false);
   }
 
+  // Transform trunc(lshr (sext A), Cst) to ashr A, Cst to eliminate type
+  // conversion.
+  // It works because bits coming from sign extension have the same value as
+  // sign bit of the original value; performing ashr instead of lshr
+  // generates bits of the same value as the sign bit.
+  if (Src->hasOneUse() &&
+      match(Src, m_LShr(m_SExt(m_Value(A)), m_ConstantInt(Cst))) &&
+      cast<Instruction>(Src)->getOperand(0)->hasOneUse()) {
+    const unsigned ASize = A->getType()->getPrimitiveSizeInBits();
+    // This optimization can be only performed when zero bits generated by
+    // the original lshr aren't pulled into the value after truncation, so we
+    // can only shift by values smaller then the size of destination type (in
+    // bits).
+    if (Cst->getValue().ult(ASize)) {
+      Value *Shift = Builder->CreateAShr(A, Cst->getZExtValue());
+      Shift->takeName(Src);
+      return CastInst::CreateIntegerCast(Shift, CI.getType(), false);
+    }
+  }
+
   // Transform "trunc (and X, cst)" -> "and (trunc X), cst" so long as the dest
   // type isn't non-native.
   if (Src->hasOneUse() && isa<IntegerType>(Src->getType()) &&