Re: [new-ra] GCC-3.3.2/x86: some suspicious behaviour

Michael Matz <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:46:33 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-gcc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Denis Zaitsev wrote:

> So, what does these two commands mean:
> 
> 
> 	movl	%ecx, 16(%esp)
> 	movl	%esi, 20(%esp)

It means that the compiler wasn't able to optimize them away.  They do no 
harm.  FWIW gcc 3.4 or the new-regalloc-branch don't have this problem.

> The result is the same for any -O >0 and for -Os.  And the presence of
> these suspicious commands are not affected by the frame-pointer option.


Ciao,
Michael.