http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3507
Daniel Santos <daniel.santos at pobox dot com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |daniel.santos at pobox dot | |com --- Comment #13 from Daniel Santos <daniel.santos at pobox dot com> 2012-07-10 10:23:08 UTC --- Well here's another test case for the same problem: extern print_gt(void); extern print_lt(void); extern print_eq(void); void cmp_and_branch(long a, long b) { long diff = a - b; if (diff > 0) { print_gt(); } else if (diff < 0) { print_lt(); } else { print_eq(); } } In this case, the result of the subtraction is directly used in the branch code. However, gcc -O2 -S still generates this output: .file "gcc_cmp_and_branch_test2.c" .text .p2align 4,,15 .globl cmp_and_branch .type cmp_and_branch, @function cmp_and_branch: .LFB0: .cfi_startproc subq %rsi, %rdi cmpq $0, %rdi jg .L5 jne .L6 jmp print_eq .p2align 4,,10 .p2align 3 .L5: jmp print_gt .p2align 4,,10 .p2align 3 .L6: jmp print_lt .cfi_endproc .LFE0: .size cmp_and_branch, .-cmp_and_branch .ident "GCC: (Gentoo 4.7.1) 4.7.1" .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits I'm using Gentoo x86_64: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.1/gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.7.1/work/gcc-4.7.1/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.1 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --with-ppl --with-cloog --disable-ppl-version-check --with-cloog-include=/usr/include/cloog-ppl --enable-lto --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --enable-obsolete --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/python --enable-checking=release --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-objc-gc --enable-languages=c,c++,java,objc,obj-c++,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-targets=all --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.7.1' Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.1 (Gentoo 4.7.1) I do hope this can be addressed sometime soon. Thanks.