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[Bug target/54089] [SH] Refactor shift patterns
- From: "amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:52:46 +0000
- Subject: [Bug target/54089] [SH] Refactor shift patterns
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54089
Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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--- Comment #22 from Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-10-16 10:52:46 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> The code related to shift patterns in sh.c / sh.md maybe could use some
> improvements here and there. In some places clobbers and scratch regs could be
> avoided.
> There is also a large part that deals with minimizing and-shift/shift-and
> sequences, but there are no test cases to verify that those actually work.
> It would also be interesting to see, whether some of the and-shift/shift-and
> combine code could be reduced due to improvements in the middle-end.
Be careful with removing 'useless' clobbers, as they might be needed to
facilitate instruction combinations into patterns that have these clobbers.