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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:31:29 -0300
From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Re: inefficiency of GCC output code & -O problem
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"Alexei A. Frounze" wrote:

> Hi!
>
> 1st question...
>
> Why GCC output too much redundant code?
> I mean, it always put values to the CPU registers, although it's possible to
> make the same operation w/o taking registers?

Are you using -O? Are these variables global?

> Also why GCC does type cast of byte/word <-> dword values so awful? It allocates
> some extra bytes on the stack, put values there and get them back...

You are not optimizing, that's why.

> Is it a normal thing, if one instruction that adds something to ESP(or EBP) is
> followed by sutracting instruction that works with the same register?

?

> ... I'll find some extra info later ...
>
> 2nd question...
>
> Why the "-O2" switch works normally for pure C source code and makes compiler
> failing on the source with inline assembly (in the .S file made out of such .C
> an error encounters:
> "Error: Error: Missing ')' assumed"
> "Error: Error: Ignoring junk `(%ebp))' after expression")?
> W/o the -O2 switch it's compiled fine. Isn't it a little bit strange?

Can you show a small example? I guess that's an error in your inline assembler
code, but I can't know without the actual code.

SET

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