https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106265

--- Comment #7 from Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta at linux dot dev> ---
(In reply to Richard Biener from comment #5)
> So why do we even emit unsupported 'li 4096' and leave it to the linker to
> "optimize(?)"? 

li 4096 is really a pseudo-op - LUI is used to build 32-bit constants. For this
problem whether LI or LUI is used is just a detail.

> OTOH LRA rematerialization also could be the culprit, thinking rematerializing
> the constant is cheaper than spilling a register holding it.

Thx for the pointer. I tried disabling it -fno-lra-remat and it generates
exactly same code.

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