https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42065
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Keywords| |missed-optimization
Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Last reconfirmed| |2017-02-07
CC| |msebor at gcc dot gnu.org
Ever confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #3 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
It doesn't look like this has changed between GCC 4.5 and GCC 7 so I'll confirm
it as a missing space optimization.
$ cat t.c && gcc -g3 -Wall -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols
-feliminate-unused-debug-types t.c && readelf -wm a.out | grep -e NOT -e USED
#define NOT used
#define USED(x) x
int main (void) { return USED (0); }
DW_MACRO_GNU_define_indirect - lineno : 1 macro : NOT used
DW_MACRO_GNU_define_indirect - lineno : 2 macro : USED(x) x
With GCC 7, even an empty object file contains 345 macro definitions (one for
each macro predefined by GCC):
$ /build/gcc-trunk/gcc/xgcc -B /build/gcc-trunk/gcc -c -g3 -xc -ot.o -
</dev/null && readelf -wm t.o | grep macro | wc -l
345
