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Hi Andrew, Thank you for the suggestion. I've looked at CodeGenPrepare.cpp and MoveExtToFormExtLoad() is never run. I also notice that the ARM target produces the same additional register usage (copy) and zero extending (of the copy). (See the usage of r3 &r5 and also r12 & r4 in attached file arm-strcspn.s, my understanding is that 'ldrb' is zero extending.) Here is a

On Sep 10, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Robert Lytton <robert at xmos.com> wrote: > Hi, > > A bit more information. > I believe my problem lies with the fact that the load is left as 'anyext from i8'. > On the XCore target we know this will become an 8bit zext load - as there is no 8bit sign extended load! > If BB#1 were to force the load to a "zext from i8" would