Split out altivec notes into their own README

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@27168 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 52 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
index 410aa8a7ed..14a0bc124e 100644
--- a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+//===- README.txt - Notes for improving PowerPC-specific code gen ---------===//
+
 TODO:
 * gpr0 allocation
 * implement do-loop -> bdnz transform
@@ -309,12 +311,6 @@ Generate lwbrx and other byteswapping load/store instructions when reasonable.
 
 ===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
 
-Implement TargetConstantVec, and set up PPC to custom lower ConstantVec into
-TargetConstantVec's if it's one of the many forms that are algorithmically
-computable using the spiffy altivec instructions.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
 Compile this:
 
 int foo(int a) {
@@ -502,11 +498,6 @@ This theoretically may help improve twolf slightly (used in dimbox.c:142?).
 
 ===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
 
-Implement PPCInstrInfo::isLoadFromStackSlot/isStoreToStackSlot for vector
-registers, to generate better spill code.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
 int foo(int N, int ***W, int **TK, int X) {
   int t, i;
   
@@ -524,32 +515,6 @@ http://www.lcs.mit.edu/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TM-600.pdf
 
 ===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
 
-Altivec support.  The first should be a single lvx from the constant pool, the
-second should be a xor/stvx:
-
-void foo(void) {
-  int x[8] __attribute__((aligned(128))) = { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 };
-  bar (x);
-}
-
-#include <string.h>
-void foo(void) {
-  int x[8] __attribute__((aligned(128)));
-  memset (x, 0, sizeof (x));
-  bar (x);
-}
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-Altivec: Codegen'ing MUL with vector FMADD should add -0.0, not 0.0:
-http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8763
-
-We need to codegen -0.0 vector efficiently (no constant pool load).
-
-When -ffast-math is on, we can use 0.0.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
 float foo(float X) { return (int)(X); }
 
 Currently produces:
@@ -571,16 +536,6 @@ win only.
 
 ===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
 
-  Consider this:
-  v4f32 Vector;
-  v4f32 Vector2 = { Vector.X, Vector.X, Vector.X, Vector.X };
-
-Since we know that "Vector" is 16-byte aligned and we know the element offset 
-of ".X", we should change the load into a lve*x instruction, instead of doing
-a load/store/lve*x sequence.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
 We generate ugly code for this:
 
 void func(unsigned int *ret, float dx, float dy, float dz, float dw) {
@@ -596,8 +551,3 @@ void func(unsigned int *ret, float dx, float dy, float dz, float dw) {
 
 ===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
 
-There are a wide range of vector constants we can generate with combinations of
-altivec instructions.  For example, GCC does: t=vsplti*, r = t+t.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-