Problem supporting char and short int

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Hi,
  I am trying to port gcc-4.3.0 to a custom architecture. The high level
language selected is C.
The processor is a RISC processor and all the registers are of 32-bits wide.
The integer data type (SImode) is set as 32-bits.

I have already completed implementation to support integer data type and it
works fine. Now I am trying to support other data types such as char
(8-bits), short int (16-bits).
I have defined the following things:
1. macros in the .h file:
#define LOAD_EXTEND_OP(MODE) SIGN_EXTEND

#define PROMOTE_MODE(MODE, UNSIGNEDP, TYPE) \
  if (GET_MODE_CLASS (MODE) == MODE_INT         \
      && GET_MODE_SIZE (MODE) < 4)              \
    {                                           \
      (MODE) = SImode;                          \
    }

#define PROMOTE_FUNCTION_MODE(MODE, UNSIGNEDP, TYPE)    \
  if ((GET_MODE_CLASS (MODE) == MODE_INT                \
       || GET_MODE_CLASS (MODE) == MODE_COMPLEX_INT)    \
      && GET_MODE_SIZE (MODE) < 4)                      \
    (MODE) = SImode;           

2. md patterns for zero_extend and extend patterns, movqi and movhi.

The gcc builds successfully and also cc1 compiles the following C code. But
you can see that the generated assembly has bugs.

C code:
   void main()
{
   short int c;
   int b;

   b = c;

}

generated .s looks something like :

...function prologue..
loadHI Reg1, (frame_pointer, #-18)
storeHI Reg1,[frame_pointer, #-28]     
loadSI  Reg2, [frame_pointer, #-28]
ashiftleft   Reg1,Reg2,#16
ashiftright     Reg1,Reg1,#16
storeSI Reg1,[frame_pointer, #-16]
...function epilogue


expected .s is:
...function prologue..
loadHI Reg1, (frame_pointer, #-18)
storeSI Reg1,[frame_pointer, #-16]
...function epilogue

I am not able to find out why extra load, store and shift instructions are
generated.

-Rajeshwari
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