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// Random ideas for the ARM backend (Thumb specific).
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//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
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* Add support for compiling functions in both ARM and Thumb mode, then taking
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the smallest.
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* Add support for compiling individual basic blocks in thumb mode, when in a
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larger ARM function. This can be used for presumed cold code, like paths
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to abort (failure path of asserts), EH handling code, etc.
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* Thumb doesn't have normal pre/post increment addressing modes, but you can
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load/store 32-bit integers with pre/postinc by using load/store multiple
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instrs with a single register.
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* Make better use of high registers r8, r10, r11, r12 (ip). Some variants of add
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and cmp instructions can use high registers. Also, we can use them as
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temporaries to spill values into.
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