https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109476
--- Comment #18 from CVS Commits <cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The master branch has been updated by Roger Sayle <sa...@gcc.gnu.org>: https://gcc.gnu.org/g:650c36ec461a722d9c65e82512b4c3aeec2ffee1 commit r14-335-g650c36ec461a722d9c65e82512b4c3aeec2ffee1 Author: Roger Sayle <ro...@nextmovesoftware.com> Date: Fri Apr 28 14:21:53 2023 +0100 PR rtl-optimization/109476: Use ZERO_EXTEND instead of zeroing a SUBREG. This patch fixes PR rtl-optimization/109476, which is a code quality regression affecting AVR. The cause is that the lower-subreg pass is sometimes overly aggressive, lowering the LSHIFTRT below: (insn 7 4 8 2 (set (reg:HI 51) (lshiftrt:HI (reg/v:HI 49 [ b ]) (const_int 8 [0x8]))) "t.ii":4:36 557 {lshrhi3} (nil)) into a pair of QImode SUBREG assignments: (insn 19 4 20 2 (set (subreg:QI (reg:HI 51) 0) (reg:QI 54 [ b+1 ])) "t.ii":4:36 86 {movqi_insn_split} (nil)) (insn 20 19 8 2 (set (subreg:QI (reg:HI 51) 1) (const_int 0 [0])) "t.ii":4:36 86 {movqi_insn_split} (nil)) but this idiom, SETs of SUBREGs, interferes with combine's ability to associate/fuse instructions. The solution, on targets that have a suitable ZERO_EXTEND (i.e. where the lower-subreg pass wouldn't itself split a ZERO_EXTEND, so "splitting_zext" is false), is to split/lower LSHIFTRT to a ZERO_EXTEND. To answer Richard's question in comment #10 of the bugzilla PR, the function resolve_shift_zext is called with one of four RTX codes, ASHIFTRT, LSHIFTRT, ZERO_EXTEND and ASHIFT, but only with LSHIFTRT can the setting of low_part and high_part SUBREGs be replaced by a ZERO_EXTEND. For ASHIFTRT, we require a sign extension, so don't set the high_part to zero; if we're splitting a ZERO_EXTEND then it doesn't make sense to replace it with a ZERO_EXTEND, and for ASHIFT we've played games to swap the high_part and low_part SUBREGs, so that we assign the low_part to zero (for double word shifts by greater than word size bits). 2023-04-28 Roger Sayle <ro...@nextmovesoftware.com> gcc/ChangeLog PR rtl-optimization/109476 * lower-subreg.cc: Include explow.h for force_reg. (find_decomposable_shift_zext): Pass an additional SPEED_P argument. If decomposing a suitable LSHIFTRT and we're not splitting ZERO_EXTEND (based on the current SPEED_P), then use a ZERO_EXTEND instead of setting a high part SUBREG to zero, which helps combine. (decompose_multiword_subregs): Update call to resolve_shift_zext. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog PR rtl-optimization/109476 * gcc.target/avr/mmcu/pr109476.c: New test case.
