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2011/7/26 Daniel Nicácio <dnicacios at gmail.com>: > > I also would like to see why the "XOR  A,  -1" is not turned into a NOT, any > Probably because NOT (like NEG) doesn't exist :) <http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#instref> I assume the decision was made that it wasn't worth adding the extra unary instructions when they can easily be handled in codegen by matching "XOR X, -1" or "SUB 0, X". ~ Scott

hi, i found the term "intrinsic" in some LLVM docs i am reading, and nowhere explains what that means. i did try to google, but nothing helpful came up. anybody please help? many thanks, Jun

After a few more tests, I found out that if we set -unroll-threshold to a value large enough, and run "opt -std-compile-opts" or "opt -O3" 3 times, the unroll will be able to unroll the original loop 32 times, and when you have it unrolled for at least 32 times a optimization is triggered, folding it to a single "%xor.3.3.1 = xor i32 %tmp6, -1" (dont know why it does