PowerPC has a conditional branch to the link register (return) instruction: BCLR.
This should be used any time when we'd otherwise have a conditional branch to a
return. This adds a small pass, PPCEarlyReturn, which runs just prior to the
branch selection pass (and, importantly, after block placement) to generate
these conditional returns when possible. It will also eliminate unconditional
branches to returns (these happen rarely; most of the time these have already
been tail duplicated by the time PPCEarlyReturn is invoked). This is a nice
optimization for small functions that do not maintain a stack frame.
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Like nearbyint, rint can be implemented on PPC using the frin instruction. The
complication comes from the fact that rint needs to set the FE_INEXACT flag
when the result does not equal the input value (and frin does not do that). As
a result, we use a custom inserter which, after the rounding, compares the
rounded value with the original, and if they differ, explicitly sets the XX bit
in the FPSCR register (which corresponds to FE_INEXACT).
Once LLVM has better modeling of the floating-point environment we should be
able to (often) eliminate this extra complexity.
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These instructions are available on the P5x (and later) and on the A2. They
implement the standard floating-point rounding operations (floor, trunc, etc.).
One caveat: frin (round to nearest) does not implement "ties to even", and so
is only enabled in fast-math mode.
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