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

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:46:33PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> 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.

They don't harm.  But to optimize _what_?  So, what is the initial
meaning of these assignments?  And why they appear only for the double
asm statement?