where the lowpart SUBREG has difficulty seeing through the (hi<<64)
that the lowpart must be zero. Rather than workaround this in the
backend, the better fix is to teach simplify-rtx that
lowpart((hi<<64)|lo) -> lo and highpart((hi<<64)|lo) -> hi, so that
all backends benefit. Reducing the number of places where the
middle-end generates a SUBREG of something other than REG is a
good thing.
On x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, the testcase pr78904-1b.c FAILs with this patch,
due to changes in expected/canonical RTL, for which a backend patch to
i386.md has already been provisionally approved.
2023-06-23 Roger Sayle <roger@nextmovesoftware.com>
gcc/ChangeLog
* simplify-rtx.cc (simplify_subreg): Optimize lowpart SUBREGs
of ASHIFT to const0_rtx with sufficiently large shift count.
Optimize highpart SUBREGs of ASHIFT as the shift operand when
the shift count is the correct offset. Optimize SUBREGs of
multi-word logic operations if the SUBREGs of both operands
can be simplified.