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x86_64: Use peephole2 to eliminate redundant moves.
The recent fix for mul_widen_cost revealed an interesting quirk of ira/reload register allocation on x86_64. As shown in https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-August/551648.html for gcc.target/i386/pr71321.c we generate the following code that performs unnecessary register shuffling. movl $-51, %edx movl %edx, %eax mulb %dil Various discussions in bugzilla seem to point to reload preferring not to load constants directly into CLASS_LIKELY_SPILLED_P registers. Whatever the cause, one solution (workaround), that doesn't involve rewriting a register allocator, is to use peephole2 to spot this wierdness and eliminate it. With this peephole2 the above three instructions (from pr71321.c) are replaced with: movl $-51, %eax mulb %dil 2020-08-12 Roger Sayle <roger@nextmovesoftware.com> Uroš Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> gcc/ChangeLog * config/i386/i386.md (peephole2): Reduce unnecessary register shuffling produced by register allocation.
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