I'm not sure there's a point in testing on x64 because I'm not sure that changing to a fixed shift is actually an optimization. I think that the variable shift was slow back in the Pentium days but it's really a thing of the past.

I'm honestly surprised that the variable shift didn't get fixed. This strength reduction will happen if you use a multiply instead of a shift: the multiply will get reduced to an addition. I had assumed that the same would hold for variable and fixed width shifts.

I would file this as a bug against the compilers in question. I don't think it would take very long to fix.