The node was introduced in 59c39dc1 and was intended to allow writing
patterns like this:
`[(set AL, (mul AL, GR8:$src1)), (implicit EFLAGS)]`
However, it does not introduce new functionality because the same
pattern can be equivalently expressed as:
`[(set AL, EFLAGS, (mul AL, GR8:$src1))]`
The latter form is also more flexible as it allows reordering output
operands.
In most places uses of `implicit` were redundant -- removing them didn't
change anything in the generated DAG tables. The only three cases where
it did have effect are in X86InstrArithmetic.td and X86InstrSystem.td --
those were rewritten to use `set` node.
Removing `implicit` from some patterns made them importable by GISel,
hence the change in a test.
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