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@@ -12806,6 +12806,15 @@ loop unrolling.
This option is enabled by default at optimization levels @option{-O1},
@option{-O2}, @option{-O3}, @option{-Os}.
+@opindex favoid-store-forwarding
+@item -favoid-store-forwarding
+@itemx -fno-avoid-store-forwarding
+Many CPUs will stall for many cycles when a load partially depends on previous
+smaller stores. This pass tries to detect such cases and avoid the penalty by
+changing the order of the load and store and then fixing up the loaded value.
+
+Disabled by default.
+
@opindex ffp-contract
@item -ffp-contract=@var{style}
@option{-ffp-contract=off} disables floating-point expression contraction.