https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69811
Bug ID: 69811 Summary: A gcc folding issue at -O0 Product: gcc Version: 6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: tree-optimization Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: helloqirun at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- Starting from 5.1, the gcc-trunk at -O0 does not perform constant folding for the following example. $ gcc-trunk -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc-trunk COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/absozero/trunk/root-gcc/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.0.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc/configure --prefix=/home/absozero/trunk/root-gcc --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-werror --enable-multilib Thread model: posix gcc version 6.0.0 20160213 (experimental) [trunk revision 233402] (GCC) $ cat abc.c extern void aabb (void); int main () { if (0 == "a"+1) aabb (); return 0; } $ gcc-4.9 -O0 abc.c $ gcc-trunk -O0 abc.c /tmp/cc00w34u.o: In function `main': abc.c:(.text+0xf): undefined reference to `aabb' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status As a result, the current gcc-trunk may emit a call to function aabb(). $ cat abc.c void aabb (void){} int main () { if (0== "a" +1) aabb (); return 0; } $ gcc-4.9 -O0 abc.c $ objdump -d a.out | grep aabb 00000000004004f6 <aabb>: And for trunk version: $ gcc-trunk -O0 abc.c $ objdump -d a.out | grep aabb 0000000000400496 <aabb>: 4004ab: e8 e6 ff ff ff callq 400496 <aabb>