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Hi Scott, I'm not clear on what you're saying here; some of your points below seem to be contradictory. The advice to use target-independent nodes when feasible seems sound to me, so I wrote up a comment about it in SelectionDAGNodes.h. If you can formulate your thoughts in the form of specific documentation changes, that would be helpful. In theory, DAGCombiner is supposed to check if

Yes, it was I who put that rant in the commit log and it's justified. Worse, it's unreasonable to actually go through all of DAGCombiner's code and check to see if certain kinds of constants, e.g., i64, are legal during a particular phase of DAGCombiner. DAGCombiner does good work and the backends are supposed to be good citizens. CellSPU is certainly trying to be a good citizen, no