http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41076
Georg-Johann Lay <gjl at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | Target Milestone|4.7.1 |--- Severity|enhancement |normal --- Comment #6 from Georg-Johann Lay <gjl at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-01-22 22:31:11 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > Fixed I suppose. Unfortunately, not extern unsigned char read8 (void); unsigned short read16 (void) { unsigned char lo, hi; hi = read8(); lo = read8(); return lo | hi << 8; } with 4.8.0 -S -Os the compiler needs 5 instructions (29, 37, 30, 38) for an operation that is basically a no-op: read16: push r28 ; 31 pushqi1/1 [length = 1] /* prologue: function */ /* frame size = 0 */ /* stack size = 1 */ .L__stack_usage = 1 call read8 ; 5 call_value_insn/2 [length = 2] mov r28,r24 ; 6 movqi_insn/1 [length = 1] call read8 ; 7 call_value_insn/2 [length = 2] mov r18,r28 ; 28 movqi_insn/1 [length = 1] ldi r19,0 ; 29 movqi_insn/1 [length = 1] mov r19,r18 ; 37 *ashlhi3_const/3 [length = 2] clr r18 or r18,r24 ; 30 iorqi3/1 [length = 1] movw r24,r18 ; 38 *movhi/1 [length = 1] /* epilogue start */ pop r28 ; 34 popqi [length = 1] ret ; 35 return_from_epilogue [length = 1]