https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64110
--- Comment #11 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Looking at the generated assembly, I see there: movw %di, -80(%rbp) vpbroadcastw -80(%rbp), %ymm1 vmovdqa %ymm1, -80(%rbp) I'd have expected vmovd %edi, %xmm1 vpbroadcastw %xmm1, %ymm1 vmovdqa %ymm1, -80(%rbp) Is there some bug in the *vec_dupv16hi pattern that LRA can't use the !r alternative? %di should be valid nonimmediate_operand in HImode. For e.g. typedef unsigned short V __attribute__((vector_size (32))); V foo (unsigned short x) { return (V) { x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x }; } we emit what I expect. In the latter case, at *.ira we have: (insn 2 5 3 2 (set (reg:SI 90 [ x ]) (reg:SI 5 di [ x ])) pr64110-4.c:3 90 {*movsi_internal} (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:SI 5 di [ x ]) (nil))) (note 3 2 4 2 NOTE_INSN_DELETED) (note 4 3 7 2 NOTE_INSN_FUNCTION_BEG) (insn 7 4 12 2 (set (reg:V16HI 92 [ D.2291 ]) (vec_duplicate:V16HI (subreg:HI (reg:SI 90 [ x ]) 0))) pr64110-4.c:4 4233 {*vec_dupv16hi} (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:SI 90 [ x ]) (nil))) and in the former case we have: (insn 27 36 28 2 (set (reg:SI 178 [ x ]) (reg:SI 5 di [ x ])) pr64110.c:10 90 {*movsi_internal} (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:SI 5 di [ x ]) (nil))) (insn 28 27 29 2 (set (reg/v:HI 177 [ x ]) (subreg:HI (reg:SI 178 [ x ]) 0)) pr64110.c:10 92 {*movhi_internal} (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:SI 178 [ x ]) (nil))) (note 29 28 89 2 NOTE_INSN_FUNCTION_BEG) (insn 89 29 247 2 (set (reg:V16HI 214 [ vect_cst_.21 ]) (vec_duplicate:V16HI (reg/v:HI 177 [ x ]))) 4233 {*vec_dupv16hi} (nil)) which isn't that much different...