http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52055
--- Comment #4 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-02-01 16:13:43 UTC --- > So, shell we do this kind of shortening in fwprop instead? If a MEM load has > all uses subregged to a narrower mode, try to subreg it and adjust the > callers? This would be backward combining (a la REE) though, not forward propagating.