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Re: movmem pattern and missed alignment
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Richard Biener wrote:
>
> then we cannot set the alignment of i_1 at/after k = *i_1 because doing so would
> affect the alignment test which we'd then optimize away. We'd need to introduce
> a SSA copy to get a new SSA name but that would be optimized away quickly.
We preserve __builtin_assume_aligned up to pass-fold-all-builtins, so would it
work to emit it just before the memcpy
i_2 = __builtin_assume_aligned(i_1, 4);
__builtin_memcpy(j, i_2, 32);
in theory?
Alexander