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1. Jivan has a small patch which detects generation of some redundant sign/zero extensions in the RISC-V backend.    This is not expected to produce any significant benchmark improvements, but mostly serves as a final catch for corner cases so that we don't have to debug them again.  To date cases detected have all been due to expansion of builtins which perform overflow checking of basic integer operations.
2. Eliminate the redundant sign extension after an inlined strcmp.
3. Eliminate the redundant sign extension after an inlined memcmp
4. Use Jivan's trick to expose the sign extended nature of SI/HI/QI mode return values.
5. A signed comparison of a sign extended SI subreg against a constant with 0x8000000 clear can be turned into unsigned comparison in DImode
   1. This is a generalization of the min/max case that's currently handled in bitmanip.md.
   2. Investigate if we're already handling this (we may be), and if not explore the best way to fix
6. Investigate Ajit's work (IBM) to exploit cases where masking can be viewed as zero-extension within REE
7. In REE handle cases like (any_extend:DI (ashift:SI )) where the extension can be replaced by a SUBREG and then push the SUBREG into the operands generating word sized operations.  This helps code like this:

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Updates

25 Jul 2024 

• Elimination of the redundant extension after inlined strcmp and memcmp are upstreamed.
• Add note on comparisons

10 Jul 2024 

• Add memcmp optimization to list
• strcmp optimization submitted upstream

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