https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111581
Bug ID: 111581
Summary: [arm-none-eabi-gcc] / suboptimal optimization /
Product: gcc
Version: 9.3.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: target
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: cptarse-luke at yahoo dot com
Target Milestone: ---
it seems like, i should have filed this separately:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111500
i think the uxth/sxth is superfluous here,
since nobody ever looks at the high half word...
> arm-none-eabi-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=arm-none-eabi-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/9.3.0/lto-wrapper
Target: arm-none-eabi
Configured with: ../configure --disable-decimal-float --disable-libffi
--disable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap --disable-libquadmath --disable-libssp
--disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdc__-v3 --disable-nls --disable-shared
--disable-threads --disable-tls --disable-werror --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-c99 --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-interwork
--enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-long-long --enable-multilib --enable-plugins
--host= --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --prefix=/usr
--target=arm-none-eabi --with-gmp --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
--with-headers=/usr/arm-none-eabi/include --with-host-libstdcxx='-static-libgcc
-Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm' --with-isl --with-libelf --with-mpc
--with-mpfr --with-multilib-list=rmprofile
--with-native-system-header-dir=/include --with-newlib
--with-python-dir=share/gcc-arm-none-eabi --with-sysroot=/usr/arm-none-eabi
--with-system-zlib
Thread model: single
gcc version 9.3.0 (GCC)
> arm-none-eabi-gcc -save-temps -S a.c -O3 -g -mcpu=cortex-m0plus -mthumb -Wall
> --specs=nosys.specs -nostdlib -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections
> -ffreestanding -Winline
> cat a.i
# 1 "a.c"
# 1 "/tmp//"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "a.c"
void artiSXTH(volatile short * a) {
short b = *a;
*a = b;
}
> cat a.s
artiSXTH:
ldrh r3, [r0]
sxth r3, r3
strh r3, [r0]
bx lr
