This option has been disabled for a while, and it is going away so I can
clean up the coalescer code.
The tests that required physreg joining to be enabled were almost all of
the form "tiny function with interference between arguments and return
value". Such functions are usually inlined in the real world.
The problem exposed by phys_subreg_coalesce-3.ll is real, but fairly
rare.
llvm-svn: 157027
These tests all follow the same pattern:
mov r2, r0
movs r0, #0
$CMP r2, r1
it eq
moveq r0, #1
bx lr
The first 'mov' can be eliminated by rematerializing 'movs r0, #0' below the
test instruction:
$CMP r0, r1
mov.w r0, #0
it eq
moveq r0, #1
bx lr
So far, only physreg coalescing can do that. The register allocators won't yet
split live ranges just to eliminate copies. They can learn, but this particular
problem is not likely to show up in real code. It only appears because r0 is
used for both the function argument and return value.
llvm-svn: 130858
