Happens in Super Mario Sunshine. You could probably do something similar
for b == -1 (like we do for subfic), but I couldn't find any titles that
do this.
- Case 1: d == a
Before:
41 8B C7 mov eax,r15d
41 BF 00 00 00 00 mov r15d,0
44 2B F8 sub r15d,eax
After:
41 F7 DF neg r15d
- Case 2: d != a
Before:
BF 00 00 00 00 mov edi,0
41 2B FD sub edi,r13d
After:
41 8B FD mov edi,r13d
F7 DF neg edi
Consider the case where d and a refer to the same PowerPC register,
which is known to hold an immediate value by the RegCache. We place a
ReadWrite constraint on this register and bind it to an x86 register.
The RegCache then allocates a new register, initializes it with the
immediate, and returns a RCX64Reg for both d and a.
At this point information about the immediate value becomes unreachable.
In the case of subfx, this generates suboptimal code:
Before 1:
BF 1E 00 00 00 mov edi,1Eh <- done by RegCache
8B C7 mov eax,edi
8B FE mov edi,esi
2B F8 sub edi,eax
Before 2:
BE 00 AC 3F 80 mov esi,803FAC00h <- done by RegCache
8B C6 mov eax,esi
8B 75 EC mov esi,dword ptr [rbp-14h]
2B F0 sub esi,eax
The solution is to explicitly handle the constant a case before having
the RegCache allocate registers for us.
After 1:
8D 7E E2 lea edi,[rsi-1Eh]
After 2:
8B 75 EC mov esi,dword ptr [rbp-14h]
81 EE 00 AC 3F 80 sub esi,803FAC00h
The special case doesn't appear to make a significant difference in any games, and the current implementation has a (minor, fixable) issue that breaks Super Mario Sunshine (both with a failed assertion (https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11742) and a rendering issue (https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/7476)). Hardware testing wasn't able to reproduce the special case, either, so it may just not exist.
PR #9315 contains a fixed implementation of the special case on all video backends, and can serve as a basis for it being reintroduced if it is found to exist under more specific circumstances. For now, I don't see a reason to keep it present.
-If adding 2 devices with the same name, they their unique id wouldn't be increased, causing a conflict.
-Removing a device wouldn't actually remove it from the internal devices list because the list of devices had already been updated when going through it.
-It was possible to remove devices belonging to other sources by adding a device with the same name and then removing it.
The name was confusing as changing it at runtime would not change the window to fullscreen, as it effectively only affects the start of the emulation.
Also blocked the ability to change it when the emulation is running, to be more inline with other similar settings, like "Render to main Window".
Pierre Bourdon