Hello! Attached patch enables post-reload compare optimization pass for x86 targets.
As shown in following test, patch removes redundant compare: --cut here-- int test(int a, int b) { int lt = a < b; int eq = a == b; if (lt) return 1; return eq; } --cut here-- gcc -O2 on x86_64, a cmove target: test: xorl %edx, %edx cmpl %esi, %edi movl $1, %eax sete %dl cmovge %edx, %eax ret gcc-O2 -fno-compare-elim: test: xorl %edx, %edx cmpl %esi, %edi movl $1, %eax sete %dl cmpl %esi, %edi cmovge %edx, %eax ret 2012-02-05 Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> PR target/28685 * config/i386/i386.c (TARGET_FLAGS_REGNUM): New. testsuite/ChangeLog: PR target/28685 * gcc.target/i386/pr28685.c: New test. The patch was tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu {,-m32}. The patch will be committed to 4.8 once stage 1 opens. Uros.
Index: config/i386/i386.c =================================================================== --- config/i386/i386.c (revision 183904) +++ config/i386/i386.c (working copy) @@ -38685,6 +38685,9 @@ #undef TARGET_EXPAND_TO_RTL_HOOK #define TARGET_EXPAND_TO_RTL_HOOK ix86_maybe_switch_abi +#undef TARGET_FLAGS_REGNUM +#define TARGET_FLAGS_REGNUM FLAGS_REG + #undef TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P #define TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P ix86_legitimate_address_p Index: testsuite/gcc.target/i386/pr28685.c =================================================================== --- testsuite/gcc.target/i386/pr28685.c (revision 0) +++ testsuite/gcc.target/i386/pr28685.c (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +/* { dg-options "-O2" } */ + +int test(int a, int b) +{ + int lt = a < b; + int eq = a == b; + if (lt) + return 1; + return eq; +} + +/* { dg-final { scan-assembler-times "cmp" 1 } } */