https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91883
Bug ID: 91883
Summary: Division by a constant could be optimized for known
variables value range
Product: gcc
Version: 10.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: missed-optimization
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: middle-end
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: antoshkka at gmail dot com
Target Milestone: ---
Consider the example:
unsigned long long kBorder = (1ull<<62);
unsigned long long sample(unsigned long long m) {
if (m >= kBorder) __builtin_unreachable();
return m / 10;
}
It produces the following assembly:
sample(unsigned long long):
movabs rdx, -3689348814741910323
mov rax, rdi
mul rdx
mov rax, rdx
shr rax, 3
ret
However, knowing that the higher bits are always 0, the constant could be
adjusted to avoid the `shr rax, 3`:
sample(unsigned long long):
movabs rax, 1844674407370955162
mul rdi
mov rax, rdx
ret
Godbolt playground: https://godbolt.org/z/YU2yAC
This issue is probably related to PR 91881
P.S.: that optimization is important for std::to_chars(..., double) like
functions, where a significant of a double is extracted into an unsigned long
long variable, so its upper bits are always zero.