https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111798
Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last reconfirmed| |2023-10-16 CC|richard.guenther at gmail dot com |rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 Status|UNCONFIRMED |WAITING --- Comment #1 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- If I configured correctly the only change (early) SRA does is unsigned int fn1K (unsigned int x) { + <unnamed-unsigned:6> y$k; ... @@ -57,13 +53,14 @@ <bb 2> : y = sK; - _1 = y.k; + y$k_13 = sK.k; + _1 = y$k_13; _2 = (unsigned char) _1; _3 = (unsigned char) x_9(D); _4 = _2 + _3; _5 = (<unnamed-unsigned:6>) _4; - y.k = _5; - _6 = y.k; + y$k_14 = _5; + _6 = y$k_14; _11 = (unsigned int) _6; y ={v} {CLOBBER(eol)}; return _11; and later DSE eliminates 'y' completely. Note I can't see any big assembly difference -O2 vs -O2 -fno-tree-sra so I wonder if I really reproduced the significantly worse code generation issue. In fact generated code looks better, the stack slot is elided: > diff -u t.s.good t.s.bad --- t.s.good 2023-10-16 10:18:27.457651977 +0200 +++ t.s.bad 2023-10-16 10:07:49.997656268 +0200 @@ -19,13 +19,11 @@ .export fn1K .type fn1K, @function fn1K: - subi sp,8 lrw r7, sK ld.b r7,(r7) addu r2,r7 movi r7,63 and r2,r7 - addi sp,8 jmp r15 .size fn1K, .-fn1K .align 1