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nativeGen/aarch64: Fix handling of subword values
Here we rework the handling of sub-word operations in the AArch64 backend, fixing a number of bugs and inconsistencies. In short, we now impose the invariant that all subword values are represented in registers in zero-extended form. Signed arithmetic operations are then responsible for sign-extending as necessary. Possible future work: * Use `CMP`s extended register form to avoid burning an instruction in sign-extending the second operand. * Track sign-extension state of registers to elide redundant sign extensions in blocks with frequent sub-word signed arithmetic.
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