https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70676
Georg-Johann Lay <gjl at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |missed-optimization Target| |avr Priority|P3 |P5 Status|UNCONFIRMED |WAITING Last reconfirmed| |2016-05-21 CC| |gjl at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Georg-Johann Lay <gjl at gcc dot gnu.org> --- You missed to add a test case, cf. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/#need > Can GCC in -Os really optimize only size and rollback optimizations No, GCC usually won't "rollback" optimizations, and it won't perform speculative optimizations. There are cases where avr-gcc does not optimize sibling calls. Provided you use -mrelax (or link with -Wl,--relax), the linker tries to replace [R]CALL+RET by [R]JMP instruction. If there is a label at the }, i.e. between the CALL and the RET, no optimization is possible.