+2008-05-25 Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>
+
+ * gcse.c (hash_scan_set): Do not pick up a REG_EQUAL value if
+ SRC is a REG.
+
2008-05-25 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
* c-common.c (strip_array_types): Move function to..
unsigned int regno = REGNO (dest);
rtx tmp;
- /* See if a REG_NOTE shows this equivalent to a simpler expression.
+ /* See if a REG_EQUAL note shows this equivalent to a simpler expression.
+
This allows us to do a single GCSE pass and still eliminate
redundant constants, addresses or other expressions that are
- constructed with multiple instructions. */
+ constructed with multiple instructions.
+
+ However, keep the original SRC if INSN is a simple reg-reg move. In
+ In this case, there will almost always be a REG_EQUAL note on the
+ insn that sets SRC. By recording the REG_EQUAL value here as SRC
+ for INSN, we miss copy propagation opportunities and we perform the
+ same PRE GCSE operation repeatedly on the same REG_EQUAL value if we
+ do more than one PRE GCSE pass.
+
+ Note that this does not impede profitale constant propagations. We
+ "look through" reg-reg sets in lookup_avail_set. */
note = find_reg_equal_equiv_note (insn);
if (note != 0
+ && REG_NOTE_KIND (note) == REG_EQUAL
+ && !REG_P (src)
&& (table->set_p
? gcse_constant_p (XEXP (note, 0))
: want_to_gcse_p (XEXP (note, 0))))