http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50038
Bug #: 50038 Summary: redundant zero extensions Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.7.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: target AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: tocarip.in...@gmail.com Following code void t_run_test(int Pels,unsigned char * ImageInPtr,unsigned char * ImageOutPtr) { int i; unsigned char xr, xg; unsigned char xy=0; for (i = 0; i < Pels; i++) { xr = *ImageInPtr++; xg = *ImageInPtr++; xy = (unsigned char) ((19595*xr + 38470*xg) >> 16); *ImageOutPtr++ = xy; } } Is compiled -O2 with both gcc 4.5.1 (Target: x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,lto --enable-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux) and trunk version (Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../configure --enable-languages=c --disable-bootsrap Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.0 20110808 (experimental) (GCC) ) to ... movzbl (%rsi), %edi movzbl 1(%rsi), %eax movq %rcx, %rsi movzbl %dil, %edi <- redundant movzbl %al, %eax <- redundant imull $19595, %edi, %edi imull $38470, %eax, %eax addl %edi, %eax ... For example icc does ... movzbl (%rsi), %ecx incl %eax movzbl 1(%rsi), %r8d addq $2, %rsi imull $19595, %ecx, %r10d .... Without unnecessary zero extensions.