[mpreda]

I second this.

It's nice to wish for the optimizer to do the [almost] perfect job, but sometimes that never arrives. Consider for example the case of AMD GPU ISA (GCN) generated by LLVM: it's been so far from optimal for so long, that one can lose hope that'll ever happen; and wish for a simple solution that works in the meantime.

[fweimer]

Is the amdgcn GCC backend any better? (Or maybe final register allocation is not performed before llvm-mc is called—GCC reuses llvm-mc due to lack of binutils support.)