[llvm] [X86] Prefer andl to andb to save one byte encoding when using with bzhi or bextr (PR #86921)
Phoebe Wang via llvm-commits
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Tue Apr 16 00:22:20 PDT 2024
phoebewang wrote:
> > * As I mentioned above, it is considered beneficial for bzhi/bextr, which matches with GCC;
>
> It's been a long time since I looked, but I thought gcc generally avoids 8 bit registers. Not just for bzhi/bextr.
Do you have an example in mind, I did some simple experiment, the Clang code generation looks good to me https://godbolt.org/z/6h3W348WM
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/86921
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