[PATCH] D130560: [RISCV] Handle register spill in branch relaxation

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In D130560#3684918 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D130560#3684918>, @CoelacanthusHex wrote:

> There seems to be a problem here: if we perform only some operations on registers without sd after a jump (which can easily happen if only a few short instructions are executed between jumps), we then jump to another place. If we still restore immediately in this case, we are actually wasting resources.

Yes. We can construct a loop with a few instructions executed and a long jump at each iteration, making the jump scratch register saved/restored frequently. Maybe we can add a TODO in BranchRelaxation.cpp for future improvements?


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