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<th>Issue</th>
<td>
<a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/83403>83403</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Summary</th>
<td>
[X86] Failure to create load-ext + trunc-store on avx512 target
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</tr>
<tr>
<th>Labels</th>
<td>
backend:X86,
missed-optimization
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</tr>
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<th>Assignees</th>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>
RKSimon
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</table>
<pre>
```ll
define void @cast_i16x4_to_u8x4(ptr %a0, ptr %a1) {
%1 = load <4 x i16>, ptr %a1
%2 = trunc <4 x i16> %1 to <4 x i8>
store <4 x i8> %2, ptr %a0
ret void
}
```
llc -mcpu=x86-64-v4
```asm
cast_i16x4_to_u8x4: # @cast_i16x4_to_u8x4
vmovq (%rsi), %xmm0 # xmm0 = mem[0],zero
vpmovwb %xmm0, %xmm0
vmovd %xmm0, (%rdi)
retq
```
This could be performed as:
```asm
cast_i16x4_to_u8x4: # @cast_i16x4_to_u8x4
vpmovsxwd (%rsi), %xmm0
vpmovdb %xmm0, (%rdi)
retq
```
</pre>
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