From 86d77337fcd270bd12ca32674ebab9c8379d56e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Cheng <evan.cheng@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:35:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a README entry.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@59052 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 lib/Target/X86/README.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
index 53c002b2822..92747623451 100644
--- a/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/X86/README.txt
@@ -1773,3 +1773,20 @@ gcc 4.3 generates:
         movl    12(%ebp), %eax
         popl    %ebp
         ret
+
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+Teach tblgen not to check bitconvert source type in some cases. This allows us
+to consolidate the following patterns in X86InstrMMX.td:
+
+def : Pat<(v2i32 (bitconvert (i64 (vector_extract (v2i64 VR128:$src),
+                                                  (iPTR 0))))),
+          (v2i32 (MMX_MOVDQ2Qrr VR128:$src))>;
+def : Pat<(v4i16 (bitconvert (i64 (vector_extract (v2i64 VR128:$src),
+                                                  (iPTR 0))))),
+          (v4i16 (MMX_MOVDQ2Qrr VR128:$src))>;
+def : Pat<(v8i8 (bitconvert (i64 (vector_extract (v2i64 VR128:$src),
+                                                  (iPTR 0))))),
+          (v8i8 (MMX_MOVDQ2Qrr VR128:$src))>;
+
+There are other cases in various td files.