Denis Chertykov wrote:
> 2011/7/6 Georg-Johann Lay <avr@gjlay.de>:
>> For loading a 32-bit constant in a register, there is room for
>> improvement:
>>
>> * SF can be handled the same way as SI and therefore the patch
>>  adds a peep2 to produce a *reload_insf analogon to *reload_insi.
>>
>> * If the destination register overlaps NO_LD_REGS, values already
>>  loaded into some other byte can be reused by a simple MOV.
>>  This is helpful then moving values like, e.g. -2, -100 etc. because
>>  all high bytes are 0xff.
>>
>> * 0.0f can be directly moved to memory.
>>
>> * The mov insns contain "!d" constraint. I see no reason to make "d"
>>  expensive and discourage use of d-regs.  A "*d" to hide is better
>>  because it does it neither puts additional pressure on "d" nor
>>  discourages "d".
>>
> 
> I would like to have a real code examples.
> 
> Denis.

Hi Denis.

Attached you find a small C file and the asm that is generated by new
and old versions (-Os -mmcu=atmega88 -S -dp).

I took away some regs as potential clobbers (or -fno-peephole2) to
show the effect of high register pressure.  Bit even if a clobber was
available you can see that the new version is smarter in reusing
values, e.g. note the loading of -1L to r22-r25.

Johann