Re: nasm over gas?

[Jamie Lokier]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Although I tend to still prefer gcc 2.95 for the code size.  

I just compiled a small C function with GCC 3.2.2.  

With -O2, it had two completely redundant stack adjustment instructions.
With -Os, those instructions were gone and it was good code.

Why, oh why is -O2 still so lame after all these years? :)

-- Jamie
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