Committed to mainline the patch to support instructions with auto-inc operations in SMS after addressing Ayal's comments. The patch contains two parts; one of them fixes a bug revealed during bootstrapping with the patch and SMS flags. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-09/msg01988.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-09/msg01987.html

Looking at estimating register pressure with SMS: based on previous discussion with Richard the current approach is to try and use the register pressure estimation in loop invariant pass.