http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824
Bill Pringlemeir <bpringlemeir at gmail dot com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bpringlemeir at gmail dot | |com --- Comment #4 from Bill Pringlemeir <bpringlemeir at gmail dot com> 2013-04-20 13:59:19 UTC --- As far as I understand, the instruction stream is smaller, but there are two extra memory writes to adjust the stack. This optimization is only important for '-Os'. Generally, it will slow the code as data writes and code fetches are generally the same cost and this trades 2 for 1.