We are missing cases for combining of FACGE/FACGT instructions. In the testcase of the patch we generate:
foo:
fabs v3.4s, v0.4s
fabs v0.4s, v1.4s
fabs v1.4s, v2.4s
fcmgt v0.4s, v3.4s, v0.4s
fcmgt v1.4s, v3.4s, v1.4s
b g
This is because combine is rejecting the pattern due to costs:
Successfully matched this instruction:
(set (reg:V4SI 106)
(neg:V4SI (lt:V4SI (abs:V4SF (reg:V4SF 113))
(abs:V4SF (reg:V4SF 111)))))
rejecting combination of insns 8, 9 and 10
original costs 8 + 8 + 12 = 28
replacement costs 8 + 28 = 36
It is obviously recursing in the various arms of the RTX and such.
This patch teaches the aarch64 rtx costs routine that our vector comparisons are represented as a NEG of
compare operators, with the FACGE/FAGT operations in particular having ABS on each arm. With this patch we get
the much more reasonable dump:
original costs 8 + 8 + 8 = 24
replacement costs 8 + 8 = 16
and generate the optimal assembly:
foo:
mov v31.16b, v0.16b
facgt v0.4s, v0.4s, v1.4s
facgt v1.4s, v31.4s, v2.4s
b g
Bootstrapped and tested on aarch64-none-linux-gnu.