https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12395
--- Comment #19 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #18) > This is what is produced (at least for 7.3.0): Which has been produced since GCC 6. that is due to ifcvt.c changes. On the trunk we can produce on the gimple now: a.1_1 = a; if (a.1_1 != -1) goto <bb 3>; [50.00%] else goto <bb 4>; [50.00%] <bb 3> [local count: 536870913]: _3 = a.1_1 + 2; <bb 4> [local count: 1073741824]: # _2 = PHI <0(2), _3(3)> a = _2; Note most optimial code is really: movl a(%rip), %eax addl $1, %eax adcl $0, %eax movl %eax, a(%rip) Which can be produced with LLVM with: void foo1() { extern int a; a += 1; a+=a==0; } GCC is close: movl a(%rip), %eax xorl %edx, %edx addl $1, %eax sete %dl addl %edx, %eax movl %eax, a(%rip) But the the sete and addl can be combined.