Add a comment when there is a shifted value,
add x9, x0, #291, lsl #12 ; =1191936
but not when the immediate value is unshifted,
subs x9, x0, #256 ; =256
when the comment adds nothing additional to the reader.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107196
This reverses instcombine's demanded bits' transform which always tries to clear bits in constants.
As noted in PR35792 and shown in the test diffs:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35792
...we can do better in codegen by trying to form -1. The x86 sub test shows a missed opportunity.
I did investigate changing instcombine's behavior, but it would be more work to change
canonicalization in IR. Clearing bits / shrinking constants can allow killing instructions,
so we'd have to figure out how to not regress those cases.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42986
llvm-svn: 324839