https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46091
--- Comment #7 from Uroš Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> --- From i386.md: ;; %%% bts, btr, btc, bt. ;; In general these instructions are *slow* when applied to memory, ;; since they enforce atomic operation. When applied to registers, ;; it depends on the cpu implementation. They're never faster than ;; the corresponding and/ior/xor operations, so with 32-bit there's ;; no point. But in 64-bit, we can't hold the relevant immediates ;; within the instruction itself, so operating on bits in the high ;; 32-bits of a register becomes easier.
