diff --git a/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc b/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc
index 9ac067641..f0f63ac52 100644
--- a/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc
+++ b/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc
@@ -712,8 +712,7 @@ XEEMITTER(stdcx, 0x7C0001AD, X)(PPCHIRBuilder& f, InstrData& i) {
   // CR0[LT GT EQ SO] = 0b00 || n || XER[SO]
   Value* ea = CalculateEA_0(f, i.X.RA, i.X.RB);
   Value* rt = f.ByteSwap(f.LoadGPR(i.X.RT));
-  Value* stored = f.StoreRelease(ea, rt);
-  f.StoreContext(offsetof(PPCContext, cr0.cr0_eq), stored);
+  f.StoreRelease(ea, rt);  // also updates cr0
   return 0;
 }
 
@@ -729,8 +728,7 @@ XEEMITTER(stwcx, 0x7C00012D, X)(PPCHIRBuilder& f, InstrData& i) {
   // CR0[LT GT EQ SO] = 0b00 || n || XER[SO]
   Value* ea = CalculateEA_0(f, i.X.RA, i.X.RB);
   Value* rt = f.ByteSwap(f.Truncate(f.LoadGPR(i.X.RT), INT32_TYPE));
-  Value* stored = f.StoreRelease(ea, rt);
-  f.StoreContext(offsetof(PPCContext, cr0.cr0_eq), stored);
+  f.StoreRelease(ea, rt);  // also updates cr0
   return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_hir_builder.cc b/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_hir_builder.cc
index 64bf1dae4..3d5cf5f41 100644
--- a/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_hir_builder.cc
+++ b/src/alloy/frontend/ppc/ppc_hir_builder.cc
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ Value* PPCHIRBuilder::StoreRelease(Value* address, Value* value,
       LoadContext(offsetof(PPCContext, reserve_address), INT64_TYPE),
       LoadZero(INT32_TYPE));
   Value* eq = CompareEQ(Truncate(address, INT32_TYPE), old_address);
+  StoreContext(offsetof(PPCContext, cr0.cr0_eq), eq);
   auto skip_label = NewLabel();
   BranchFalse(eq, skip_label, BRANCH_UNLIKELY);
   Store(address, value, store_flags);