http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59461
Bug ID: 59461 Summary: missed zero-extension elimination in the combiner Product: gcc Version: 4.9.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: missed-optimization Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: rtl-optimization Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org This is a spin-off of PR rtl-optimization/58295. The zero-extension is not (and has never been) eliminated on the SPARC at -O2: ee_isdigit2: sethi %hi(zeb_test_array), %g1 or %g1, %lo(zeb_test_array), %g1 ldub [%g1+%o0], %g1 mov 0, %o0 add %g1, -48, %g1 and %g1, 0xff, %g1 cmp %g1, 9 jmp %o7+8 movleu %icc, 1, %o0 .size ee_isdigit2, .-ee_isdigit2 The instruction "and %g1, 0xff, %g1" is redundant like on the ARM and the combiner should eliminate it. The difference between the ARM and the SPARC is that the former explicitly zero-extends the load from memory while the latter does it only implicitly via LOAD_EXTEND_OP. This shouldn't matter in the end, but does here because of some weakness of the nonzero_bits machinery.