ReduceLoadWidth unconditionally drops extensions from loads. Limit it to the
case when all of the bits the extension would otherwise produce are dropped by
the shrink. It would be possible to shrink the load in more cases by merging
the extensions, but this isn't trivial and a very rare case. I left a TODO for
that case.
Fixes PR16551.
llvm-svn: 185755
On x86 this allows to fold a load into the cmp, greatly reducing register pressure.
movzbl (%rdi), %eax
cmpl $47, %eax
->
cmpb $47, (%rdi)
This shaves 8k off gcc.o on i386. I'll leave applying the patch in README.txt to Chris :)
llvm-svn: 130005