------- Comment #8 from ubizjak at gmail dot com 2009-04-28 21:47 ------- >From config/i386/i386.c:
/* AMD Athlon works faster when RET is not destination of conditional jump or directly preceded by other jump instruction. We avoid the penalty by inserting NOP just before the RET instructions in such cases. */ static void ix86_pad_returns (void) ... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39942
