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middle-end: Allow backend to expand/split double word compare to 0/-1.
This patch to the middle-end's RTL expansion reorders the code in emit_store_flag_1 so that the backend has more control over how best to expand/split double word equality/inequality comparisons against zero or minus one. With the current implementation, the middle-end always decides to lower this idiom during RTL expansion using SUBREGs and word mode instructions, without ever consulting the backend's machine description. Hence on x86_64, a TImode comparison against zero is always expanded as: (parallel [ (set (reg:DI 91) (ior:DI (subreg:DI (reg:TI 88) 0) (subreg:DI (reg:TI 88) 8))) (clobber (reg:CC 17 flags))]) (set (reg:CCZ 17 flags) (compare:CCZ (reg:DI 91) (const_int 0 [0]))) This patch, which makes no changes to the code itself, simply reorders the clauses in emit_store_flag_1 so that the middle-end first attempts expansion using the target's doubleword mode cstore optab/expander, and only if this fails, falls back to lowering to word mode operations. On x86_64, this allows the expander to produce: (set (reg:CCZ 17 flags) (compare:CCZ (reg:TI 88) (const_int 0 [0]))) which is a candidate for scalar-to-vector transformations (and combine simplifications etc.). On targets that don't define a cstore pattern for doubleword integer modes, there should be no change in behaviour. For those that do, the current behaviour can be restored (if desired) by restricting the expander/insn to not apply when the comparison is EQ or NE, and operand[2] is either const0_rtx or constm1_rtx. This change just keeps RTL expansion more consistent (in philosophy). For other doubleword comparisons, such as with operators LT and GT, or with constants other than zero or -1, the wishes of the backend are respected, and only if the optab expansion fails are the default fall-back implementations using narrower integer mode operations (and conditional jumps) used. 2022-08-05 Roger Sayle <roger@nextmovesoftware.com> gcc/ChangeLog * expmed.cc (emit_store_flag_1): Move code to expand double word equality and inequality against zero or -1, using word operations, to after trying to use the backend's cstore<mode>4 optab/expander.
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