Re: Question about GCC and stack

> The subl instruction is pointless, I dont know why it's inserted. It
> could be just generic stub code that gcc always inserts for
> allocating stack variables, but as in this case you dont use any, it
> allocates $0 bytes...I'm sure someone will correct me if there's a
> good reason for it :)

I expect that the instructions obtained by the original poster were
created by gcc without optimization. Run gcc with -O2 or so would
probably yield a simpler set of instructions.

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