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Fourth, eliminate the redundant sign extension after an inlined strcmp. More generally expose the sign extended nature of function return values.
Fifth, see if the ABI defined extension interface can be properly integrated in REE (with some code from IBM's Ajit Agarwal)
Stakeholders/Partners
RISE:
Ventana: 1 FTE Jivan Hakobyan and Jeff Law
Rivos: Vineet (part time)
External:
The original idea for and implementation of the ext-dce pass was from Joern Rennecke at EMBECOSM.
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- Note the two additional identified opportunities to remove redundant sign extensions. Change development state to in-progress.
- Added yet another idea for ABI defined extension elimination in REE.
- Carried over unfinished items from 2H2023 plan
- Jivan's patch for catching corner cases of promoted objects integrated into tester