The problem with PR120423 and PR116389 is that reload might assign an invalid
hard register to a paradoxical subreg. For example with the test case from
the PR, it assigns (REG:QI 31) to the inner of (subreg:HI (QI) 0) which is
valid, but the subreg will be turned into (REG:HI 31) which is invalid
and triggers an ICE in postreload.
The problem only occurs with the old reload pass.
The patch maps the paradoxical subregs to a zero-extends which will be
allocated correctly. For the 120423 testcases, the code is the same like
with -mlra (which doesn't implement the fix), so the patch doesn't even
introduce a performance penalty.
The patch is only needed for v15: v14 is not affected, and in v16 reload
will be removed.
PR rtl-optimization/120423
PR rtl-optimization/116389
gcc/
* config/avr/avr.md [-mno-lra]: Add pre-reload split to transform
(left shift of) a paradoxical subreg to a (left shift of) zero-extend.
gcc/testsuite/
* gcc.target/avr/torture/pr120423-1.c: New test.
* gcc.target/avr/torture/pr120423-2.c: New test.
* gcc.target/avr/torture/pr120423-116389.c: New test.