Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > > I'm about to run home for the day but this came in from > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg02109.html and James > said in that email that this was put in to ensure no segfaults on > cortex-a15 / cortex-a7 tuning.
The code is historical - an older version didn't specifically look just for shifts. Given we can only return shift rtx's now it's completely redundant. A bootstrap on armhf with --with-cpu=cortex-a15 passed. Wilco