https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15573
--- Comment #30 from yebblies <[email protected]> --- (In reply to hsteoh from comment #29) > > In the bad (optimized) version at the top, however, it's comparing the local > variable `m` (which, from an earlier part of the dump, can be seen to be > stored in -0x8(%rbp)) against %dh, which doesn't seem to make sense. Why > does the compiler emit a comparison agains %dh instead of 0x0? Is it > assuming that %dh is zero? Why would it make such as assumption? > > After this point, the value of div0 is wrong, and the code proceeds down a > different path than it should. Yeah, the compiler is incorrectly assuming that dh contains zero. In cdnot in cod2.c, there is the check if (reghasvalue((sz == 1) ? BYTEREGS : ALLREGS,0,®)) which uses the cmp mem, reg form if it finds a register that contains zero. I'm not sure why it returns true and sets reg to 6 though. --
