------- Additional Comments From amodra at bigpond dot net dot au 2004-12-06 23:31 ------- I checked again with a current x86 gcc, 3.4.4 20041206, and the problem is still there. Note that this only happens with cc1plus. As to why we get the "impossible" assembly, what happens is that the inline function cti gets expanded twice, but the first return label is used for both expansions:
cti body jump ret_label ret_label cti body jump ret_label A simpler testcase is: struct thread_info { short preempt_count; } x; static inline struct thread_info *cti (void) __attribute__ ((const)); static inline struct thread_info *cti (void) { return &x; } void fn (void) { ++cti()->preempt_count; } -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17972