This patch adds rot[lr]64ti2_doubleword patterns to the x86_64 backend, to move splitting of 128-bit TImode rotates by 64 bits after reload, matching what we now do for 64-bit DImode rotations by 32 bits with -m32. In theory moving when this rotation is split should have little influence on code generation, but in practice "reload" sometimes decides to make use of the increased flexibility to reduce the number of registers used, and the code size, by using xchg. For example: __int128 x; __int128 y; __int128 a; __int128 b; void foo() { unsigned __int128 t = x; t ^= a; t = (t<<64) | (t>>64); t ^= b; y = t; } Before: movq x(%rip), %rsi movq x+8(%rip), %rdi xorq a(%rip), %rsi xorq a+8(%rip), %rdi movq %rdi, %rax movq %rsi, %rdx xorq b(%rip), %rax xorq b+8(%rip), %rdx movq %rax, y(%rip) movq %rdx, y+8(%rip) ret After: movq x(%rip), %rax movq x+8(%rip), %rdx xorq a(%rip), %rax xorq a+8(%rip), %rdx xchgq %rdx, %rax xorq b(%rip), %rax xorq b+8(%rip), %rdx movq %rax, y(%rip) movq %rdx, y+8(%rip) ret One some modern architectures this is a small win, on some older architectures this is a small loss. The decision which code to generate is made in "reload", and could probably be tweaked by register preferencing. The much bigger win is that (eventually) all TImode mode shifts and rotates by constants will become potential candidates for TImode STV. This patch has been tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu with make bootstrap and make -k check with no new failures. Ok for mainline? 2022-07-29 Roger Sayle gcc/ChangeLog * config/i386/i386.md (define_expand ti3): For rotations by 64 bits use new rot[lr]64ti2_doubleword pattern. (rot[lr]64ti2_doubleword): New post-reload splitter. Thanks again, Roger --