[Bug target/21518] [4.0/4.1 Regression] unable to find a register with -fPIC and -O2 and non inlining static function

[rth at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #12 from rth at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-11-01 07:35 -------
Frankly, this smells like a plain old-fashioned reload bug to me.
There's no reason this insn couldn't have been rendered as

  movl %esi,%eax
  movbl %al,%eax

Investigating further to see how nasty it might be...


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21518