https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86131
--- Comment #3 from Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup dot eu> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #2) > The cost has been 2 since the day -mcpu=860 was added back in 1996 > (r0-10828). Right, which means that a single left shift performs better than a multiply by a power of two.