http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29845
--- Comment #12 from Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-11-07 23:56:37 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11) > Do you have any particular example in mind? Just compare the size & performance of the code generated from fp-bit.c with the hand-coded asm. Also observe how comparisons for the latter are lighter on the caller as less registers are clobbered.