The patch is a revised solution for PR middle-end/98865 incorporating the feedback/suggestions from Richard Biener's review here: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-May/593928.html Most significantly, this patch now performs the transformation/optimization during RTL expansion, where the target's rtx_costs can be used to determine whether the original multiplication (that may be possibly be implemented by a shift or lea) is cheaper than a negation and a bit-wise and. Previously the expression (x>>63)*y would be compiled with -O2 as shrq $63, %rdi movq %rdi, %rax imulq %rsi, %rax but with this patch now produces: sarq $63, %rdi movq %rdi, %rax andq %rsi, %rax Likewise the expression (x>>63)*135 [that appears in a hot-spot of the Botan AES-128 benchmark] was previously: shrq $63, %rdi leaq (%rdi,%rdi,8), %rdx movq %rdx, %rax salq $4, %rax subq %rdx, %rax now becomes: movq %rdi, %rax sarq $63, %rax andl $135, %eax This patch has been tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu with make bootstrap and make -k check, both with and without --target_board=unix{-m32}, with no new failures. Many thanks to Uros for the speedy review and approval of my x86_rtx_costs patch that enables this transformation on -m32 using the correct cost of DImode multiplication. Ok for mainline? 2022-05-18 Roger Sayle gcc/ChangeLog PR middle-end/98865 * expr.cc (expand_expr_real_2) [MULT_EXPR]: Expand X*Y as X&Y when both X and Y are [0, 1], X*Y as X&-Y when Y is [0,1] and likewise X*Y as -X&Y when X is [0,1] using tree_nonzero_bits. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog PR middle-end/98865 * gcc.target/i386/pr98865.c: New test case. Thanks in advance, Roger --