From 6a250ecc99c76dcb07e6431c5cb99e495895ad82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:20:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add note

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@30937 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
index 82af6677fa6..11ad35a56cb 100644
--- a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,25 @@ still a codesize win.
 
 ===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
 
+Compile:
+
+void foo(int *P) {
+ if (P)  *P = 0;
+}
+
+into:
+
+_foo:
+        cmpwi cr0,r3,0
+        beqlr cr0
+        li r0,0
+        stw r0,0(r3)
+        blr
+
+This is effectively a simple form of predication.
+
+===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+
 Teach the .td file to pattern match PPC::BR_COND to appropriate bc variant, so
 we don't have to always run the branch selector for small functions.