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On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 09:32:55PM +0000, David Laight wrote:

> > The compiler always generates this specific instruction sequence.
> 
> Yes, but there are several ways to encode 'cmpl imm,-6(reg)'.

Yes, but we don't care. This *always* uses the 32bit immediate form.
Even if the immediate is small.