http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53938
Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|WAITING |NEW --- Comment #4 from Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Trunk as of this weekend still generates: mov r3, #-536870912 ldrb r1, [r3] @ zero_extendqisi2 ldrb ip, [r3] @ zero_extendqisi2 and r1, r1, #255 ldrh r2, [r3] tst r1, #128 movne r1, #0 tst r2, #128 movne r2, #0 mov ip, ip, asl #24 ldrh r0, [r3] add r1, r1, ip, asr #24 add r2, r1, r2 mov r0, r0, asl #16 add r0, r2, r0, asr #16 bx lr The real problem is that the RTL expansion passes never generate zero- or sign-extended values directly. They expect combine to pick this up. Unfortunately, combine won't touch a memory access that is volatile. What does still surprise me is that we fail to eliminate the zero-expand operation. After expand we have: (insn 8 7 9 (set (reg:SI 126) (zero_extend:SI (mem/v:QI (reg/f:SI 124) [0 MEM[(union io *)3758096384B].uch+0 S1 A64]))) test.c:30 -1 (nil)) (insn 9 8 10 (set (reg:QI 125) (subreg:QI (reg:SI 126) 0)) test.c:30 -1 (nil)) (insn 10 9 0 (set (reg/v:SI 111 [ i ]) (and:SI (subreg:SI (reg:QI 125) 0) (const_int 255 [0xff]))) test.c:30 -1 (nil)) I would have expected at the very least that some pass would have worked out that regs 126 and 111 are equivalent.