This patch adds support for xstormy16's swap nibbles instruction (swpn). For the test case: short foo(short x) { return (x&0xff00) | ((x<<4)&0xf0) | ((x>>4)&0x0f); } GCC with -O2 currently generates the nine instruction sequence: foo: mov r7,r2 asr r2,#4 and r2,#15 mov.w r6,#-256 and r6,r7 or r2,r6 shl r7,#4 and r7,#255 or r2,r7 ret with this patch, we now generate: foo: swpn r2 ret To achieve this using combine's four instruction "combinations" requires a little wizardry. Firstly, define_insn_and_split are introduced to treat logical shifts followed by bitwise-AND as macro instructions that are split after reload. This is sufficient to recognize a QImode nibble swap, which can be implemented by swpn followed by either a zero-extension or a sign-extension from QImode to HImode. Then finally, in the correct context, a QImode swap-nibbles pattern can be combined to preserve the high-byte of a HImode word, matching the xstormy16's swpn semantics. The naming of the new code iterators is taken from i386.md. The any_rotate code iterator is used in my next (split out) patch. This patch has been tested by building a cross-compiler to xstormy16-elf from x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and confirming the new test cases pass. Ok for mainline? 2023-04-29 Roger Sayle gcc/ChangeLog * config/stormy16/stormy16.md (any_lshift): New code iterator. (any_or_plus): Likewise. (any_rotate): Likewise. (*_and_internal): New define_insn_and_split to recognize a logical shift followed by an AND, and split it again after reload. (*swpn): New define_insn matching xstormy16's swpn. (*swpn_zext): New define_insn recognizing swpn followed by zero_extendqihi2, i.e. with the high byte set to zero. (*swpn_sext): Likewise, for swpn followed by cbw. (*swpn_sext_2): Likewise, for an alternate RTL form. (*swpn_zext_ior): A pre-reload splitter so that an swpn+zext+ior sequence is split in the correct place to recognize the *swpn_zext followed by any_or_plus (ior, xor or plus) instruction. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog * gcc.target/xstormy16/swpn-1.c: New QImode test case. * gcc.target/xstormy16/swpn-2.c: New zero_extend test case. * gcc.target/xstormy16/swpn-3.c: New sign_extend test case. * gcc.target/xstormy16/swpn-4.c: New HImode test case. Thanks in advance, Roger --