[Bug rtl-optimization/23100] New: poor code generation for i686

[dann at godzilla dot ics dot uci dot edu]

Compiling the code below (extracted from xterm-202) with
 -fno-inline -O2 -march=i686

typedef unsigned long Atom;

static int
CutBuffer(unsigned code) 
{
    int cutbuffer;
    switch (code) {
    case ((Atom) 9):
 cutbuffer = 0;
 break;
    case ((Atom) 10):
 cutbuffer = 1;
 break;
    case ((Atom) 11):
 cutbuffer = 2;
 break;
    case ((Atom) 12):
 cutbuffer = 3;
 break;
    case ((Atom) 13):
 cutbuffer = 4;
 break;
    case ((Atom) 14):
 cutbuffer = 5;
 break;
    case ((Atom) 15):
 cutbuffer = 6;
 break;
    case ((Atom) 16):
 cutbuffer = 7;
 break;
    default:
 cutbuffer = -1;
 break;
    }
    return cutbuffer;
}

int foo (unsigned code)
{
  return CutBuffer (code);
}

generates: 

CutBuffer:
        subl    $9, %eax
        movl    $-1, %edx
        pushl   %ebp
        cmpl    $7, %eax
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        ja      .L12
        jmp     *.L11(,%eax,4)
        .section        .rodata
        .align 4
        .align 4
.L11:
        .long   .L3
        .long   .L4
        .long   .L5
        .long   .L6
        .long   .L7
        .long   .L8
        .long   .L9
        .long   .L10
        .text
.L9:
        movl    $6, %edx
        .p2align 4,,15
.L12:
        popl    %ebp
        movl    %edx, %eax
        ret
.L3:
        popl    %ebp
        xorl    %edx, %edx
        movl    %edx, %eax
        .p2align 4,,2
        ret
.L10:
        popl    %ebp
        movl    $7, %edx
        movl    %edx, %eax
        ret
.L8:
        popl    %ebp
        movl    $5, %edx
        movl    %edx, %eax
        ret
.L7:
        popl    %ebp
        movl    $4, %edx
        movl    %edx, %eax
        ret
.L6:
        popl    %ebp
        movl    $3, %edx
        movl    %edx, %eax
        ret
[snip]

Note the sequences: movl NUMBER, %edx 
                    movl %edx, %eax

instead of using only one instruction for the same thing: movl NUMBER, %eax

-- 
           Summary: poor code generation for i686
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.1.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: rtl-optimization
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: dann at godzilla dot ics dot uci dot edu
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23100