[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] st/mesa: make sure to create a "clean" bool when doing i2b

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com> wrote:
> Reviewed-by: Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com>
>
> As for b2i I'm not really convinced using INEG is preferable there.
> Generally I'd favor logic ops over arithmetic any day.
> I suppose backend probably need to try to recognize such patterns anyway
> for best performance (so that for instance things like b2i->i2b should
> be no-ops), and I just don't see that INEG using AND instead would help
> much there in general. But I don't really know...

Well, there are a number of instructions that can take "neg" modifiers
(like add, mul, mad). None that can take "& 1" modifiers (although
and/etc can take "not" modifiers). By the time things get to gallium,
the bool-ness of variables is lost, so it can be tricky to figure if &
1 really means "b2i" or if it really means "random value & 1". I guess
bool's are always produced by comparisons, so you could just key it
off of whether the random value is produced by a set or not. [I'm
already planning a similar hack for "& 1.0", where the set instruction
can actually produce the 1.0 value directly if told so.]

I'm curious why you prefer bit manipulation over arithmetic? I have
the opposite preference...

  -ilia