Refcount elimination and redundant push/pops pass needs fixing to work together
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Since Jan 12, 2026.
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
Refcount elimination inserts a _INSERT_X operation.
This isn't recognised by the push/pop removal pass in remove_unneeded_uops.
Fix by me eventually (TM).
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